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On Behalf of the Plutocrats
Kathy Wylde, the longtime head of the Partnership for New York City, started her career as a community organizer— and has a message for today’s young socialists.
A Lounge in the Sky in the West Village
How architect Alexander Gorlin turned a badly renovated studio apartment into a sunny and starlit day-to-night home—with enough space for 30 Dutch soldiers.
133 minutes with …Hugh Hamrick
After 30 years of dating David Sedaris, “Congressman Prude” finally tells his side of their story.
Who Dies
COVID took my grandfather. But it wasn’t what killed him.
America Is Not the Country Joe Biden Believes It to Be
The durability of the liberal delusion and the future of the right.
Exhale, America
The one-term reign of the man who never should've won
Weave of Destruction
Bad Hair is a love letter written with a poison pen.
The Horny and the Holy
Ariana Grande is a singer of many contrasts.
THE GREAT 21ST-CENTURY TREASURE HUNT
Was there a better way to spend the past decade than on a sometimes maddening, occasionally deadly, brain scrambling search for gold hidden somewhere in the American West?
Shuggie Bain Makes It Out
Out First-time novelist Douglas Stuart’s unsparing account of a life not unlike his own might be the best-reviewed book you’ve not yet read in 2020.
Bringing the Beauty Out
For the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, the moment was always now.
NEWYORK, TIMES CHANGES
For the sake of the country—and the business model—the New York Times evolved during the Trump years: less dispassionate, more crusading. This has sparked a raw internal debate over the paper’s mission and future.
Last Days
Inside the White House as inevitability—and anger—set in.
Greenpoint's Greenest Building
The new public library cost a lot, and it may have been worth it.
Elvis Costello – This Year's Model
Elvis Costello is back with his 31st (or so) studio album. But don’t look for any consolation from him.
Ernesto's Interregnum
Between our critic’s first and last visits to the Basque-inspired taverna, not much (and everything) has changed.
The World's Best Bureaucrat
As chairman of the Federal Reserve during the global pandemic, Jerome Powell has managed to do something almost unimaginable in Washington: a good job.
Movies Were Better When Whoopi Was in Them
The actress has already achieved EGOT status. Now, finally, she’s a Master of Culture.
Nerding Out With David Fincher
The director talks about the decades-long journey behind Mank, his dense, bitter look at Hollywood history, political power, and the creative act.
Enablement
The torture self justification of one very powerful Trump loathing anonymous republican.
Wide Awake
The past four years have seen the birth of a modern progressive movement so vast and energetic it just might be equal to the right-wing forces that threaten its extinction.
TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL WINNERS
Fifty-one insiders who profited off the Trump presidency. A collaboration with WNYC’s Trump, Inc. podcast.
The System: Zak Cheney-Rice
White Houses Two visions of the suburbs are on the ballot. Both are myths.
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
The Off-Ramp From Authoritarianism What an election can and can’t save.
Reopenings – Midtown As Microcosm
When it’s back, the city will be too.
When Nimby Met Maga
Liberals on the Upper West Side wanted to oust hundreds of homeless men from a local hotel. Then Tucker Carlson took up their cause.
Meanwhile, in Another World
How a Nicole Kidman–Hugh Grant drama series wound up becoming an inadvertent time capsule.
The National Interest: Good Genes
The president’s lifelong obsession with his superior DNA is put to the test.
The Writer's Room: I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up
The creator of ‘The Death of Stalin’ and ‘Veep’ on a week that surpassed satire.
Reality TV Glows Up
Docuseries are television’s latest prestige offering, but they’re not so different from their trashier predecessors.