The Magazine
April 15, 2024
Goings On
Goings On
Andrew Scott Joins the Pantheon of Talented Mr. Ripleys
Also: a Polaroid-inspired oratorio at PAC NYC, the mesmerizing art of Francesca Woodman, a documentary about Kim’s Video, and more.
Tables for Two
Hyper-Telegenic Noodles, at Okiboru House of Udon
The beguilingly wide Himokawa udon noodles at this new East Village spot are already famous, thanks to fervent foodie TikTokers.
The Talk of the Town
Evan Osnos on President Biden’s Israel policy; we felt the earth move; a perspiring philosopher; Maya Hawke’s coed cosplay; tidings of spring.
Comment
Joe Biden and U.S. Policy Toward Israel
After six months of war, has Israel’s killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers compelled the President to do more to save lives in Gaza?
Our Local Correspondents
Waking Up to a New York City Earthquake
After the most powerful quake in more than a century, the city was full of stories, arm-waving, and whispers of California.
In This Corner
Mike Tyson Enters His Renaissance-Man Period
The fifty-seven-year-old boxer, weed mogul, and actor—he stars in “Asphalt City” opposite Sean Penn—perspires, philosophizes, prepares for his fight with Jake Paul.
Hyphenate Dept.
Maya Hawke Goes Back to School
The “Stranger Things” actress, and college dropout, explains why she visited her brother at Brown before writing her new studio album, “Chaos Angel.”
Sketchpad
Signs of the New Season
Girl-Scout cookie surplus, skimpy-clothes anxiety? It must be spring!
Reporting & Essays
Our Local Correspondents
Behind the Scenes of New York City’s “Trash Revolution”
Can a notoriously dirty city join the sanitary twenty-first century? Jessica Tisch, the commissioner of sanitation and a member of one of the country’s wealthiest families, thinks it’s possible.
Onward and Upward with the Arts
Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies
The singer-songwriter’s sudden celebrity made her a kind of minister without training. So she went and got some.
A Reporter at Large
Battling Under a Canopy of Drones
The commander of one of Ukraine’s most skilled units sent his men on a dangerous mission that required them to elude a swarm of aerial threats.
Profiles
Park Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants
With “The Sympathizer,” the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” comes to American television.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
Old-Fashioned Know-How
Kids today! You ever fought a forest fire that you yourself started? You ever had thirteen kids by seventeen different women?
Fiction
Fiction
“Finistère”
A man travelling alone in his morbid fifties does not talk to a girl in her teens without family or guardian in sight, especially not in this black romantic mood.
The Critics
Books
The Warhol “Superstar” Candy Darling and the Fight to Be Seen
The sui-generis trans actress inspired works by Warhol, Lou Reed, and others, yet never broke through to the mainstream herself. A new book captures the brilliant persona she created.
Books
Briefly Noted
“Cocktails with George and Martha,” “Cahokia Jazz,” “The Limits,” and “The Tower.”
Books
Stephen Breyer to the Supreme Court Majority: You’re Doing It Wrong
In our system of government, the Constitution has the final say. But it doesn’t come with a user manual.
Books
The Truth Behind the Slouching Epidemic
From the onset of the twentieth century, poor posture has been associated with poverty, bad health, and even civilizational decadence. But does the real problem lie elsewhere?
On and Off the Menu
In the Kitchen with the Grande Dame of Jewish Cooking
Any home cook who’s hosted a Passover Seder or a Rosh Hashanah dinner has likely consulted a recipe by Joan Nathan.
The Current Cinema
The Unexpected Delight of “Sasquatch Sunset”
In David and Nathan Zellner’s other films, the action often feels fabricated to yield images of twee idiosyncrasy. There is no similar sense of contrivance here.
Poems
Poems
“Love Song, with Removed Cyst”
“He lies on his side, I lie on my back, / he keeps the hand elevated / on my breast.”
Cartoons
1/16
“We’re thinking about getting out of the city and moving to a cute town with creepy people.”
Cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan
Cartoon Caption Contest
Puzzles & Games
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