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REASON TO LOVE NEW YORK

THERE'S NOT MUCH in New York that has staying power. Every other day, a new scandal outscandals whatever we were just scandalized by; every few years, a hotter, scarier downtown set emerges; the yoga studio up the block from your apartment that used to be a coffee shop has now become a hybrid drug front and yarn store.

Disunion: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

A Rift in the Family My in-laws gave me a book by a eugenicist. Our relationship is over.

Gwen Whiting

Two years after a mass recall and a bacterial outbreak, the founder of the Laundress is on cleanup duty.

Neighborhood News: The Blockbuster Banana

Maurizio Cattelan's 2019 art-prank piece sells for $6.24 million at Sotheby's, becomes snack.

Power: Kerry Howley

Revenge Does Take Time' What it's like to be on Trump's enemies list.

Trapped in Time

A woman relives the same day in a stunning Danish novel.

Polyphonic City

A SOFT, SHIMMERING beauty permeates the images of Mumbai that open Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light. For all the nighttime bustle on display-the heave of people, the constant activity and chaos-Kapadia shoots with a flair for the illusory.

Lear at the Fountain of Youth

Kenneth Branagh's production is nipped, tucked, and facile.

A Belfast Lad Goes Home

After playing some iconic Americans, Anthony Boyle is a beloved IRA commander in a riveting new series about the Troubles.

The Pluck of the Irish

Artists from the Indiana-size island continue to dominate popular culture. Online, they've gained a rep as the \"good Europeans.\"

Houston's on Houston

The Corner Store is like an upscale chain for downtown scene-chasers.

A Brownstone That's Pink Inside

Artist Vivian Reiss's Murray Hill house of whimsy.

These Jeans Made Me Gay

The Citizens of Humanity Horseshoe pants complete my queer style.

Manic, STONED, Throttle, No Brakes

Less than six months after her Gagosian sölu show, the artist JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLAND lost her gallery and all her money and was preparing for an exhibition with two the biggest living American artists.

WHO EVER THOUGHT THAT BRIGHT PINK MEAT THAT LASTS FOR WEEKS WAS A GOOD IDEA?

Deli Meat Is Rotten

STEVE BANNON'S SECOND TERM

Within seven days, he GOT OUT OF PRISON and helped WIN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Now it's time for war.

THE REDDENING OF NEW YORK

How Trump's rising popularity in the city (and everywhere else) exposed a Democratic Party DEEP IN DENIAL.

Going Dull

Being interesting is a burden. Is there relief in choosing to be bland?

Neighborhood News: Our Wildfires

In Prospect Park, Inwood, and beyond.

Postelection Pre-exhaustion

The proverbial horse returns to the hospital.

Verily, Are the Kids All Right?

A Romeo and Juliet production that's all (vape) smoke and shimmer.

Masterpieces, Then and Now

The Met reunites Siena Renaissance paintings for the first time in centuries.

Heritage Regained

A fantastical documentary follows the return of 26 plundered artworks to Benin.

Emilia Pérez States Its Case Right Away

The film's impressive opening number drops you into a world of corruption and chaos.

WHEN KYLIE JENNER WRITES A NOVEL

Celebrities occasionally like to try their hand at fiction. But who’s really the author?

Emily Watson Is in Charge

The double Oscar nominee grew up in a cultlike organization. Acting became her way out of it.

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Everyone's Eating at Bridges

Manhattan's hottest restaurant doesn't play it safe.

Upstairs From His Favorite Italian Restaurant

Ryan Lawson designs other people’s places differently from how he did his own Village apartment.

165 MINUTES WITH...Mike and Kiki Tyson

After a near-death experience, the boxer is preparing, his wife by his side, for his big fight against Jake Paul.

Neighborhood News: Attention, Satmar Shoppers

At Williamsburg's W Mall, a milchig food court and refuge for weary mothers.