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When COVID Becomes the Story
How Superstore leaned into a pandemic it couldn’t ignore.
Let Sharon Mashihi Whisper in Your Ear
Her strange, intimate podcast, Appearances, feels like a breakthrough for the form.
Reintroducing Sonia Sotomayor
Over a decade into her tenure, the once-maligned justice has taken up the mantle of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall. But what can she accomplish on the most conservative court in decades?
The Group Portrait: Running Zoom on Zoom
How this group of executives managed a period of explosive growth while working from their own platform.
Come As You Are
A taxonomy of intimacy from a veteran of the Bay Area queer scene.
Morfydd Clark – A Star in Waiting
Morfydd Clark’s breakout moment was supposed to come last year. She’s been too busy shooting The Lord of the Rings to worry about it.
127 Minutes With… Sam Bankman-Fried
Who was that mysterious Biden donor? A dispassionate 28-year-old with $10 billion in crypto.
The City Politic: David Freedlander
A Mayoral-Race Mystery Why is the Black frontrunner getting snubbed by the Black political Establishment?
Lost in the Club
A joint effort from two hitmakers that hits only half the time.
Mike Nichols's Heartburn
The celebrated director was at the top of his game when friend Nora Ephron trusted him to direct the movie based on his her messy breakup with Carl Bernstein. His own breakup—and breakdown—turned out to be right around the corner.
The File: Bad Bunny
Language barriers, gender norms, the sheer boringness of quarantine—none of it stands a chance against Bad Bunny, the artist remaking pop in his own wild image.
After Alarmism
The war on climate denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
How Comedy (Just Barely) Survived Trump
Cracking jokes when nothing was funny
An Elegantly DIY Williamsburg Apartment With a Vreeland-Red Wall
Taylor Angino and Kiko Sih’s place is always evolving.
MILLION-DOLLAR SLICE
CHRIS BARRETT HAS MADE BANK ON THE GRAY MARKET SELLING PIZZA LACED WITH 40 MG OF THC PER SLICE. CAN THE PIZZA PUSHA SURVIVE POT LEGALIZATION?
TV / JEN CHANEY - Novice in Office
An aging businessman enters politics on a whim. Heard that one before?
POP / CRAIG JENKINS - Hair of the Dog
A pop-country barfly pours one out for his fans’ expectations.
MOVIES / BILGE EBIRI - Anatomy of a Murder
Unwinding Jamal Khashoggi’s history with the regime that killed him.
Jazmine's Tale
After a long hiatus, the venerated R&B singer returns with her riskiest album yet.
Katie Crutchfield and Kevin Morby – Leave the World Behind
Shacked up in the suburbs of Kansas City, indie singer-songwriters Katie Crutchfield and Kevin Morby are making some of their best work.
The Power of Four
Regina King’s film reimagines a meeting of Black icons.
Total Boomer
A bumper crop of albums made for contemplating mortality.
Gain Of Function
How much risk of an accidental pandemic is too much?
The Memory War
When Jennifer Freyd accused her father of sexual abuse, her parents set out to discredit her—creating a controversial school of psychology that has bolstered the defense of countless sex offenders.
Blurbed To Death
How one of publishing’s most hyped books became its biggest horror story and still ended up a best seller.
At Home With Fran Lebowitz
Martin Scorsese’s conversational docuseries is a cranky, necessary love letter to New York.
Torrey Peters Goes There
The author’s debut novel, Detransition, Baby, wades into two of the most vulnerable questions for trans women.
The System: Zak Cheney-Rice
The Never-ending Coup Against Black America - Historically, “recovery” tends to look a lot like betrayal.
The Group Portrait: A Beleaguered White House Press Corps
Four years of history, day after day after day.
Prom King
With a huge Netflix deal and the power to green-light just about anything, Ryan Murphy has become the ultimate insider. And his work is suffering.