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The Next Apocalypse

A video game turned series that finds intimacy in disaster.

Club Freud

An evening with Parapraxis, a new lit mag for the new psychoanalysis crowd.

Four Fancy Soups

Elaborate broth is back.

In Search of the New York Happy Meal

Martinis and fries are the perfect pairing. In his inaugural dispatch, our new diner-at-large looks for the best place to enjoy them.

JAMES O'KEEFE GETS STUNG

After a decade of punking liberals with hidden-camera stings, his pursuit of Ashley Biden's stolen diary could blow up in his face.

Fort Walgreens

The recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).

ELON'S BIRDCAGE

Twitter's staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use it for their own endsthen one made himself the CEO.

Diary of a Hospital: Lisa Miller

\"There's No Room in the System' A plan to institutionalize the homeless has little meaning in the ER.

The Group Portrait: Fossil Hunters

Are there mammoth bones at the bottom of the East River?

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

The GOP's Eternal Return Why post-Trump Republicans are pivoting to a pre-Trump world.

A Tacombi on Every Corner

Can Danny Meyer's millions make the chain bigger than Shake Shack?

The System: Eric Levitz

When supply, not demand, is the problem the economy is changing. Liberalism must change with it.

Allison Williams Comes Alive

The star of the already viral M3gan has made a career of subverting her own image.

Kelly Harnett Had to Get Free

She was a jailhouse lawyer helping women get out of prison, but she couldn't work the system for herself. Then the system changed.

The Final Campaign

Inside Donald Trump's sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn't to say he can't win.)

The Education of X González

After the Parkland shooting, I became an activist, a celebrity, a "survivor"and the pressure almost killed me.

SZA‘s Skeletons

The singer’s second album bares it all.

Shadowy Work

Questions about a missing person probe a much larger cultural mystery.

The Heart of the Ocean

In journeying back to Avatar, James Cameron may have made his most personal film yet.

Glass Onion Isnt Trying to Trick You

According to director Rian Johnson, every twist in his sequel is right in front of your face.

Bethann Hardison's Many Lives

She challenged—and changed—a stubbornly un-diverse fashion world, ran her own modeling agency, and will soon have a documentary coming out about her life. Everything in her apartment has a story to tell.

Screen Time: Lane Brown

The Bots Hack Hollywood Alisn't about to change the movie industry. It already has.

362 MINUTES WITH ...Lizza Prigozhina

As New York's luxury market cools, a 23-year-old is helping panicked agents sell another asset: themselves.

The Group Portrait: Bookforum Was a Good Magazine

After 28 years, a beloved hub of literary New York closes its doors.

The Police Lawyer's Trial

For 11 years, Karl Ashanti defended the NYPD in civil-rights cases. Then he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.

The Best Movies of the Year

Film critics Angelica Jade Bastién, Bilge Ebiri, and Alison Willmore just want to see movies that knock them out. That was hard to find in 2022-aside from a few surprise hits.

Best Albums of the Year

The year in culture

I Made a Lifetime Christmas Movie!

Over 100 made-for-TV holiday movies will premiere this season Here's what it's like to work on one.

The Year of the Nepo Baby - An Investigation

Hollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words.

BEST THEATER OF THE YEAR

THE YEAR IN CULTURE