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Joan Didion's Greatest Two-Word Sentence

The power of an ice-cold, unflinching gaze.

72 minutes with… Connor Pardoe

Pickleball, once a game for the 50-plus crowd, exploded during the pandemic. This sports commissioner wants to turn it into a national pastime.

13,000 Pounds at 118 Miles Per Hour

The wreck of a limo near Albany was the deadliest U.S. Transportation disaster in a decade. And the man behind it was one of the most notorious confidential informants in FBI history.

The Undoing of Joss Whedon

The Buffy creator, once an icon of Hollywood feminism, is now an outcast accused of misogyny. How did he get here?

Last Sane Man on Wall Street

Nathan Anderson made his name exposing—and betting against—corporate fraud. But short selling in a frothy pandemic economy can be ruinous.

Locals Only

A cabaret star asks: Can you find yourself without leaving home?

Mitski in Nine Acts

If the musician has to reveal herself at all, she’d rather do it one short burst at a time.

SEE SPOT PAINT

Agnieszka Pilat has become the Silicon Valley elite’s favorite artist. Even The Matrix’s Neo owns her work.

The City Politic: Errol Louis

The Eric Adams Show: A beginning stocked with masterstrokes, gaffes, and eyebrow-raising appointments.

The Money Game: Choire Sicha

America’s Quarter-Life: Crisis Where’s our change? The answer is gnarlier than you’d expect.

The Group Portrait: the Majority

For the first time, women make up most of the City Council.

The Money Game: Anonymous

A Trip to the Meme-Coin Casino “I think this is all stupid and absurd. But I’m not going to complain.”

Sean Thor Conroe – The Protégé

Sean Thor Conroe lost his fiercest advocate right before he published his first novel. Now he’s facing the hype without him.

Why Did Keisha Lance Bottoms Quit?

The mayor of Atlanta was a rising star in Democratic politics. Then the crime wave hit.

“My Dad Wasn't Just A Nobody”

Fifteen people at Rikers died in 2021. These are their stories.

86 minutes with … Peter Sarsgaard

The bee-raising, orchard-tending Brooklyn aristocrat on reading Nabokov and making films with Maggie.

Remeeting a Girl Named Maria

If you liked West Side Story before, you’ll love it now.

The Political Life of Dr. OZ

His campaign to be the next Republican senator from Pennsylvania is facing one major problem: Republicans in Pennsylvania.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

What the Insurrection Accomplished Trump has transformed his party into something once unrecognizable

My Penis, Myself – A Love Story

On the day I heard that my penis would be huge, I sobbed.

I Couldn't Help But Wonder …

Was this really the best they could do?

686 minutes with …“Gloria”

Tripping till 10 a.m. with a psychonaut therapist at the after-parties for New York’s psychedelics conference.

A Difficult Age

Two teens find each other just in the nick of time.

Rockefeller Centro

With Lodi, Ignacio Mattos brings a touch of Milano to midtown.

The Jail Money Trap

The Museum of Chinese in America was desperate to buy its building. The city found a reason to pay for it— one that threw Chinatown into a years-long fight.

The City Politic: David Freedlander

Bill de Blasio Did What New Yorkers Wanted So why does he leave office so unpopular?

Extremely Online: Sophie Haigney

The Tabular Self I saw the best minds of my generation being uploaded onto “second-brain” apps.

Because Our Underworld Is World Class

Samuel Fuller (1912–1997) became a newspaper copy boy when he was just 12. By the time he was 17, he was working the murder beat for the New York Evening Graphic, a tabloid so lurid it was known as the New York Pornographic. Fuller knew a good lede when he saw one.

Stephen Sondheim – A Giant in the Sky

The measureless, omnipresent influence of Stephen Sondheim.

Caring Too Much

In Sort Of, Bilal Baig plays a caretaker still learning to love themselves.