On Practicing the Discipline of Hope
An interview with Jia Tolentino.
Arts
The Double Life of Peter Arno
On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.
Genius
A conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda.
How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
Maxine Hong Kingston’s Genre-Defying Life and Work
The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.
The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage.
Anytime the racial temperature goes up and hell pays a visit to earth, the disappointment takes a holiday. And you fight. You fight because you’re tired. Yet you’re tired because you’ve been fighting. For so long. In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain.
The Ramshackle Garden of Affection
The two poets correspond about basketball, life, and living.
The CEO of Hamilton Inc.
A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.
Prayers for Richard
A profile of Little Richard in the last years of his life, confined to a wheelchair and living in the penthouse suite at the Hilton in downtown Nashville.
Can We Escape From Information Overload?
Meet the artist who hid away for a month in total darkness.
The Duke in His Domain
A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.
Downtown Is for People
On the then-new phenomenon of dead downtowns.
“It is not only for amenity but for economics that choice is so vital. Without a mixture on the streets, our downtowns would be superficially standardized, and functionally standardized as well. New construction is necessary, but it is not an unmixed blessing: its inexorable economy is fatal to hundreds of enterprises able to make out successfully in old buildings. Notice that when a new building goes up, the kind of ground-floor tenants it gets are usually the chain store and the chain restaurant. Lack of variety in age and overhead is an unavoidable defect in large new shopping centers and is one reason why even the most successful cannot incubate the unusual--a point overlooked by planners of downtown shopping-center projects.”
Remembering Peter Beard, The King of Old Montauk
The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.
James Is a Girl
The strange life of a 16-year-old model.
In Search of Inigo Philbrick, the Disappearing Art Dealer
A young dealer goes on the lam after selling multiple masterpieces to several buyers simultaneously.
King of Comedy
The making of Caddyshack.
The Unravelling of a Dancer
Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?
Mal On the Street: The Ambush Humor of Mal Sharpe
Before The Jerky Boys and Longmont Potion Castle there was Mal Sharpe.
The Awakening of Norman Rockwell
For decades, the artist’s Saturday Evening Post covers championed a retrograde view of America. This is the story of the politically turbulent 1960s, a singular painting, and Rockwell’s unlikely change of heart.
This Is Not a Love Story
When a young author started her novel years ago, she saw it as a romance. She sees it differently now.
How to Write Fiction When the Planet Is Falling Apart
A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.
N.K. Jemisin's Dream Worlds
How the bestselling sci-fi author builds her stories.
What Do We Want History to Do to Us?
On Kara Walker.
How 'West Side Story' Was Reborn
Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.
So You Think You Can Paint
Why is Rick DeVos, the son of Betsy and the heir to the DeVos fortune, investing in a weirdly populous and highly lucrative art contest?
