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Pushing Against the Darkness
Thundercat is serious about never losing his sense of play, and his new album is both virtuosic and fun.
Movements: Eric Levitz
The Essential Work The politics of COVID-19 pick up where Bernie Sanders left off.
90 minutes with … La'Darius Marshall
Cheer’s brooding breakout star’s last days on the mat.
How to Survive This Plague – 10 How Lower the Parenting Bar
I’VE WORKED FROM HOME since 2009 when the economy collapsed and my kids were only 3 and 5.
How to Survive This Plague – 4 Walk the Dog
THIS MORNING, I walked the dog. I hadn’t slept much (who’s sleeping?) and at 2 a.m. was on the couch texting with a friend about earthquakes and World War II and our sudden alienation from our regular lives, which seem, in retrospect, almost silly in their prettiness, but then 8 a.m. rolled around and the dog needed to go out.
Reinstall Tinder, or, If That Doesn't Work, Join a Virtual Sext Bunker
COVID-19 is like the trip-to-Ikea litmus test for relationships.
How to Survive This Plague – 24 Sign Up for Couples Therapy
THANKS TO TIGHT QUARTERS (and looming existential dread), couples are arguing about everything and nothing at all.
How to Survive This Plague – 3 Learn a TikTok Dance
TikTok is full of 15-to-60-second-long user-choreographed dances, some of which go viral. Here, nine to try to teach yourself at home, ranked by difficulty. Can you get good enough to upload your own?
As Long As You're Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live
Artist Peter McGough has always insisted on living as if he’s in another era. He shares his West Village railroad apartment with mementos and Queenie.
How to survive this plague – Browse Masterpieces of Mass Death
Getting close to a Bruegel is like running your eyes through combed hay— rough, textured into infinity, every microdetail filled with energy.
How to survive this plague – 1 Slow Down
Like wars, plagues can make us see where we are.
Or Don't Teach Them Anything
In our house, the adults did not instruct us or judge our progress. I spent months obsessed with making balloon animals.
Hedge Your Bets
BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO END UP like Larry Kudlow, I don’t make claims about whether the stock market is going to go up or down.
63 minutes with… Luann de Lesseps
Decamping upstate with the Real Housewife of the Hudson Valley.
Empires: David Wallace-Wells
America Is Broken The government has abdicated its most basic responsibility in the face of a pandemic.
The Girl With the Midas Touch
How Billie Eilish, Finneas, and Hans Zimmer rethought the James Bond theme for a new generation.
The Art World's Mini-Madoff And Me
For a few years, Inigo Philbrick and I were inseparable. And then it turned out he was running a con. Not that he thinks he did anything wrong. But did I?
How to Throw a Party From a Distance
When Shanika Gunaratna felt like the only responsible move was to cancel her 31st-birthday celebration, a Google Hangouts party suddenly seemed less like a Black Mirror episode and more like—okay, still Black Mirror–esque, but at least a happier episode.
This Will Get Worse
The grim math of a coronavirus future.
Only the Beginning
The pandemic arrives, and the city shudders.
The Disaster Artist
Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel reimagines a world thrown off its axis by financial collapse. But it’s her previous novel that’s speaking to our pandemic-frenzied moment.
The CULTURE PAGES CRITICS
Helen Shaw on Girl From the North Country … Matt Zoller Seitz on Westworld … David Edelstein on First Cow.
Bushwick Rococo
Salman Toor lets himself go.
Sophie Allison – “Inside, I'm Still So Blue”
Sophie Allison, a.k.a. Soccer Mommy, is a little bit country and a little bit goth.
The Congress Woman From California
Katie Hill’s rise heralded the arrival of a new and modern political generation. And then the pictures leaked.
Judged By Their Covers
How the Assoulines made their name on books to be seen (and occasionally read).
WILL THE MILLENNIAL AESTHETIC EVER END?
The TYRANNY of TERRAZZO
What Comes After TV?
Snapchat is making hypercondensed shows specifically to watch on a smartphone. It’s harder than you’d think.
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
This Is Fine As the world reaches for face masks, Trump buries his head in the sand.
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BEING A PLANT
The actually convincing science of light therapy.