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Sometimes You Just Needed a Break. (And Even Those Could Be Fraught.)

THE SMOKE BREAK

It Was Always Clear Who Was the Boss

WORKING FOR: DIANA VREELAND, 1976

It Was Stuffed With Unforgettable Co-workers

WORKING WITH: TONI MORRISON, 1960S–1980S

It Has Defied All Predictions of Its Obsolescence

If You Believe the Headlines, the Office Has Been Dying for Half a Century

The Yesteryear Issue – While You Were Truly Out

What I want out of office gossip is what Herman Melville delivers in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Ur-text of Manhattan office life. Imagine hearing it over happyhour beers some Thursday night.

India Off the Beaten Path

For their latest venture, Dhamaka, the owners of Queens hit Adda delve deeply into the country’s most local pleasures.

30 minutes with … Eric Adams

Eight weeks before the mayoral primary and second in the polls, Brooklyn’s borough president sharpens his case for more cops.

Dancing on Your Own (Together)

A temporary club for an in-between moment.

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice

We’ll Be Here Again Chauvin’s verdict is self-preservation disguised as redemption.

Their First Apartment Together Launched a Small Business

Just out of NYU, David Zhang and Sarah Kim turned their Bushwick rental into a home-furnishings lab.

Mads Mikkelsen – ‘Oh, That's Right. I'm This Guy.'

Mads Mikkelsen is known for playing villains in America and more nuanced roles in Denmark. He takes everything and nothing seriously.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

100 Days That Reshaped America Learning from Joe Biden’s quiet, seismic young presidency.

Richard Carranza's Last Stand

Mayor de Blasio hired an ''equity warrior'' as schools chancellor. How parental politics-and the pandemic-left him defeated

Esther Perel Goes Off Script

She became today’s most famous couples therapist by ignoring all the rules of the trade.

Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns

Their Ha’s Dac Biet pop-up preceded the pandemic.

Michelle Pfeiffer – This One's on Her

A melancholy farce is nearly capsized by its star.

The Soul Of Bravo

A year of national reckonings on race and inequality has tested how real the Housewives should be.

58 minutes with … Julia Galef

The tech elite’s favorite pop intellectual.

Confessions of an Overnight Millionaire

“I constantly ask myself, Do I deserve this money?”

The Diplomat

Daniel Dae Kim built a career by picking his battles, walking away from a job only when the inequities got too big to ignore. He still believes Hollywood can be reformed.

The Detonations of Alice Neel

A survey of her portraits at the Met is packed with raw emotional power.

The City Politic: David Freedlander

Stringer Theory The comptroller’s reward for a career in public service? Third place in the polls.

Political Animals: Olivia Nuzzi

The No-Splash Tell-all What the muted reaction to Hunter Biden’s crackfueled memoir says about his father’s Washington.

Moral Panic Is Back With a Vengeance

Lil Nas X’s “Montero” is the latest song to raise the hackles of conservative commentators—and everyone has a little something to gain from the controversy.

Brawl Games

Kingpins and wannabes barrel through the London underworld.

BidenBucks Is Beeple Is Bitcoin

In a system rigged by the rich, outsiders have to make their own volatility.

Secretary Swell on a Pissed-off Planet

Groomed on Park Avenue nd in the 16th Arrondissement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confronts a world that just might be post-diplomacy.

Belinda Carlisle on the Best (and Worst) of The Go-Go's

IN 1982, the Go-Go’s became the first and only (yes, still) all-women band who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard charts with 1981’s Beauty and the Beat.

The Culture Pages – The Queen of Fractured Fairy Tales

Hlen Oyeyemi writes magical, unsettling novels in which nothing remains fixed. She has lived her life that way, too.

Christian Walker

A rising conservative star on TikTok.