CATEGORIES

THE FINAL SONDHEIM

When he died in 2021, the composer had been working for years on a new musical with the playwright David Ives and the director Joe Mantello. This is the story of how they made it.

Screen Time: John Herrman

Nothing on Your Phone Is Safe From Ads - And few tech companies can resist also becoming media companies.

Neighborhood News: It's Not a Chess Club. It's Club Chess.

The game of kings has become an unlikely downtown craze.

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice

The Mug Shot and the Tweet - Trump's Fulton County Jail appearance was the 2024 race's opening bell.

POWER BOTTOMS

The NYU classmates the year's behind most delightfully dumb comedy.

What Is Greta Gerwig Trying to Tell Us?

From Barnard to Barbie, the director has always been interested in female ambition, including her own

From Ecuador to the 7 Train

As the city's migrant population surges, some of the youngest spend their days selling candy underground.

A Tribeca House, No Longer Divided

Art collector Paige West spreads out over six bold floors.

Scam Likely

The co-director and the star of the docuseries Telemarketers started filming at their own office-even before learning they were part of a nationwide grift.

The song of Summer Is a Meme

Flyana Boss are running laps around TikTok and the music industry with \"You Wish.\"

The Quilted Giraffe

TikTok would have loved the beggar’s purse.

IS DAVID SOLOMON TOO BIG A JERK TO RUN GOLDMAN SACHS?

Profit excuses a lot on Wall Street. But not everything. Inside a banking mutiny.

WHOEVER STARVES LEAST, WINS

BEHIND THE MAKING OF ALONE, THE MOST GENUINELY PERILOUS SHOW ON TELEVISION.

Physical City: Christopher Bonanos At 110 Degrees, What in New York Breaks First?

\"The scale of the problem really intimidates me.\"

Ty Haney

Three years after her dramatic exit from Outdoor Voices, the founder and former CEO has moved on. Mostly.

Neighborhood News: 'We Are Done Dying in Silence'

Hundreds gathered to mourn, and vogue to Beyoncé, at the memorial for dancer O’Shae Sibley.

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice - Our Journey Into Extremism

The revealing case of the anti-woke crusader Richard Hanania.

'Where is Britney?'

After Britney Spears was released from her conservatorship, some of her fandom latched on to a new theory: What if she had never been freed at all?

Sperm Fever

The tantalizing business opportunities and disorienting politics of the worldwide decline in man's most precious bodily fluid

An Action Movie About Scientists Talking

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer plays out across the landscapes of Los Alamos and of Cillian Murphy's face.

Readings: Stephanie Krikorian

Everyone in the Hamptons Is Reading The Guest “Simon is every wealthy middle-aged man I know.”

223 MINUTES WITH ...J.B. Pritzker

The governor of Illinois is rich and powerful, making him both an ally to Joe Biden and his own center of influence

The Group Portrait: Goal Crazy

Supporters of the U.S. women’s soccer team are having a moment

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

The Sleaze Problem How Democrats can clean up the Supreme Court and address the Hunter Biden affair

CRITICS

Jackson McHenry on Here Lies Love … Alison Willmore on Talk to Me … Kathryn VanArendonk on Project Greenlight: A New Generation

Reneé Rapp Is So Over It

She paused her Hollywood and Broadway careers to go pop. It’s working way too well

Every Night Is an Olive Party

They’re being baked onto cakes, turned into candles, and stuck inside negroni-flavored Jell-O shots

A Sando We've Been Waiting For

This katsu is back, 18 months after it disappeared.

What the Builder Built

Under Mayor Bloomberg, Dan Doctoroff remade the city with astonishing speed. Now, as New York is again mired in crisis, he faces his own

Tell Me Why It Hurts

How Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives