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Under Her Skin

Julia Ducournau funneled years of fury, angst, and comedy into her Palme d’Or– winning, genre-smashing film Titane.

Big Apples

The tree expert who turned the five boroughs into his personal orchard.

After Tony

David Chase returns to The Sopranos, the masterpiece he’s been unable to escape since it went off the air 14 years ago

Every Woman for Herself

In this horror story, the oppression is coming from inside the house.

Simone Biles – ‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo'

For Simone Biles, walking away was an act of self-reclamation.

120 minutes with …Hasan Piker

Streaming with the AOC of Twitch.

Are Vegetables Winning?

From celery-root muffulettas to eggplant unagi, plant-based food is sweeping the city.

Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells

Recalculating Risk In the breakthrough era, age matters as much as vaccination status.A

The Group Portrait: P.S. 705's Welcome Committee

The teachers who turned the school-drop-off line into a shindig.

Not a Safe Space

Sanctuary City is an undocumented immigration story that takes a sharp turn.

Interior Life

The Amant arts center faces the city with severity but aims to cosset visitors within.

Enter Stage Right

In Impeachment: American Crime Story, Billy Eichner and Cobie Smulders play side characters who’d love to control the narrative.

The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis

Four years after promising to address its internal “scourge” of sexual assault and abuse, the massive, multinational, extralegal institution remains in conflict with itself.

You've Heard This One Before

Maggie Nelson believes we react too quickly and think ungenerously. In her new book, she’s guilty of doing both.

Jessica Chastain and Liv Ullmann – Same Role, 48 Years Apart

Jessica Chastain reprises Liv Ullmann’s part in the Ingmar Bergman classic Scenes From a Marriage. Their approaches couldn’t be more different.

Getting to Know H.E.R.

The artist is halfway to an EGOT, but she’s still a mystery to young audiences. You have to see her live to understand her.

Ruth Ozeki, Amplifier

Her latest novel teems with voices—most of them belonging to what she might call “nonhuman persons.” The book of form and emptiness is out September 21.

The ‘Bingo' Heiress's Fantastical Duplex

With its Fragonard staircase, koi-pond bathroom, and rodeo-themed kitchen, Gail Ann Lowe Maidman’s apartment is like nothing else on the Upper East Side. Or anywhere else, really.

THE POPE OF GLOOP

For 60 years, Gaetano Pesce has been preaching the gospel of uncertainty in design. Finally, the world has caught up.

The Group Portrait: Emerson String Quartet

They’re moving into the coda of a peerless 47-year run.

The Money Game: Jen Wieczner

The Antiquarian’s Approach to Crypto Wall Street’s top cop wants to police new finance with old rules.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Democrats for Rent The wealth lobby is buying them up to defeat Biden’s tax reform.

Ride Like Hell

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.

Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20

We should also acknowledge that a pervasive question after 9/11—“Why do they hate us?”—was the wrong question.

Planning For The Worst

After 9/11, we had a chance to build the downtown that New York deserves. Two decades later, timidity and fear have us hemmed in at every turn.

Adrienne Warren Stands Up

She opened in Tina so badly hurt she could barely walk. Then came another mountain to climb.

A Baritone Digs Deep

Will Liverman steps into the opera world’s most visible spot— the Met’s opening-night lead—in Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

Ruth Negga – ‘Imagine a Black Woman Just Wanting Something'

In Passing, Ruth Negga plays a character who dares you to disapprove of her choices.

1,960 minutes with …Isaac Fitzgerald

A pilgrimage with the most gregarious member of the literary internet.