Has it occurred to you that nobody talks about sellouts anymore? Recently on my commute I passed someone wearing an Obey shirt. I was reminded of friends and internet commenters on forums I once frequ
Elizabeth and her baby at home in Rhode Island. It was not until her third month of feeling unwell, in the fall of 2016, that Alicia thought to take an at-home pregnancy test. Until then, she assumed her fatigue and nausea were withdrawal symptoms from the Percocets she’d been dependent upon since…
Tom Wolfe, 88, ‘New Journalist’ With Electric Style and Acid Pen, Dies Tom Wolfe in 1968 in Manhattan. He was known for his verbal pyrotechnics in books like “The Right Stuff,” not to mention his sart
IMAGE VIA YOUTUBE Sherrie Silver is in Istanbul, Turkey, answering questions for this interview while applying her makeup. It’s an hour before she’s due to perform, and less than 48 hours after the video she choreographed for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” went viral. Silver—who also dances in…
Critic’s Notebook Bill Cosby leaving court on Thursday after being found guilty of sexual assault. Credit Dominick Reuter/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images If a sexual predator wanted to come up with a smoke screen for his ghastly conquests, he couldn’t do better than Cliff Huxtable. Cliff was…
They come dressed in their post-brunch best. They come in packs. They come to be photographed. They flock to the sanitized byways of Williamsburg for the Dream Machine, a new and wildly Instagrammable
Meghan Markle: ‘I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.’Photograph: Hannah Mckay/Reuters I n February I saw a photo of Meghan Markle and the Duchess of Cambridge sitting next to each other at the Royal Foundation Forum , wearing colour coordinated dresses (lavender for Kate, deep purple-blue for…
"Didion was one of the boys, clearly, in the sense that men had noticed her writing and wanted to publish her. But she also couldn’t quite fit into their regime." An excerpt from Michelle Dean's new book, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion . Henry Clarke / Getty Images Joan Didion…
Steele told friends that Trump supporters were using him as a “battering ram” to “take down the whole intelligence community.” Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; photograph by Victoria Jones / PA Image / Getty Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your…
Monica Lewinsky in New York City last month. Photograph by Erik Madigan Heck. How do I know him? Where have I seen him? The Man in the Hat lookedfamiliar, I thought, as I peered over at him a second time. It was Christmas Eve 2017. My family and I were about to be seated at aquaint restaurant in…
Jacket, $4,990, by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Shirt, $480, by JW Anderson Your coffee table could use some style. Click here to subscribe to GQ . Spring 2016. Somewhere in Northern Italy. A 20-year-old from New York arrives six weeks before the rest of a movie cast to learn two instruments…
J ean Liu has a vision. Not far in the future, the president of Didi Chuxing, the world’s largest ride-sharing service, imagines calling a car to her Beijing home. “I probably don’t even need to use this,” she says, holding up her smartphone. “Now it’s just some cool audio app that allows me to just…
Paul Thomas Anderson wandered down the hallway of the house he was renting in Encino, California, this summer, past his office, where a lamp illuminated a hardback of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and a pack of American Spirits, and then he turned right, into the room he'd been using to edit his…
When the Chinese action movie “ Wolf Warrior II ” arrived in theatres, in July, it looked like a standard shoot-’em-up, with a lonesome hero and frequent explosions. Within two weeks, however, “Wolf W
On Sunday, HBO aired the series finale of The Leftovers. The show, created by Damon Lindelof and based on Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel of the same name, examined the social, psychological, and spiritual effects of an event, called the Sudden Departure, in which 2% of the world’s population simply…
Greta and Chris Gerwig in Washington Square Park. Credit Kathy Lo for The New York Times The first New Yorker I ever knew was my mother, Chris Gerwig. I grew up in Sacramento, and that was the only place I’ve ever known her to call home. She had, in fact, lived in Brooklyn briefly as a child, but…
MILAN, Italy — Last week was Rick Owens Week in the global fashion media. His first-ever retrospective — highlighting the full range of his creativity, from clothes and accessories to furniture design
When Blondie burst onto the music scene in the mid-1970s, its über-cool lead singer, Debbie Harry , wore whatever she cobbled together from her wardrobe. She did her own hair and makeup, and only upped her fashion game after a friend, the emerging designer Stephen Sprouse, began bringing over slip…
Ten days before Donald Trump took on Colin Kaepernick and the NFL and Stephen Curry and the NBA, and before LeBron James, one of the most famous and popular humans in America, called the president of the United States a "bum" on Twitter, I asked him if he thought his adversarial stance against Trump…
The Wing’s founders, Lauren Kassan and Audrey Gelman, at the new SoHo location. Hilary Swift for The New York Times From the doorstep of 52 Mercer Street in SoHo on a recent Thursday night, a line of women mostly in their 20s and 30s, exuding anticipation, snaked halfway around the next block. A man…
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Ghosts of the Tsunami | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | October 2017 | 19 minutes (5,224 words) I met a priest in northern Japan who exorcised the spirits of people who had drowned in the tsunami. The ghosts did not appear in large numbers until autumn of that year, but Reverend Kaneta’s first case of…
This story is one of the seven covers of T Magazine’s Greats issue , on newsstands Oct. 22. IN THE COUNTRY of Belgium, in the meadows outside Antwerp, in a garden stalky with delphiniums, the fashion designer Dries Van Noten is considering a rose. Van Noten, who is 59, is one of those rare people…
An addiction specialist said that the Sacklers’ firm, Purdue Pharma, bears the “lion’s share” of the blame for the opioid crisis. Illustration by Ben Wiseman The north wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a vast, airy enclosure featuring a banked wall of glass and the Temple of Dendur, a…
Sitting beside the church, drinking from a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, he thought he had to go in and shoot them. They were a small prayer group—a rising-star preacher, an elderly minister, eight women, one young man, and a little girl. But to him, they were a problem. He believed that, as black…
Olive Yang, in Muse, Myanmar, in 2015. According to relatives, she wore boys’ clothes and frequently fell in love with her brothers’ romantic interests. Gabrielle Paluch MUSE, Myanmar — She was born to royalty in British colonial Burma, but rejected that life to become a cross-dressing warlord whose…
Sam Shepard and Patti Smith at the Hotel Chelsea in 1971. Photograph by David Gahr/Getty He would call me late in the night from somewhere on the road, a ghosttown in Texas, a rest stop near Pittsburgh, or from Santa Fe, where hewas parked in the desert, listening to the coyotes howling. But…
A curious message appeared on Lana Del Rey’s Twitter near the end of February, the same week she debuted her single “ Love .” “At the stroke of midnight,” it announced, listing dates during each of the next four waning crescent moons. “Ingredients can b found online.” No further explanation; only a…
The multistructured glass and sequoia house in Chester, N.J., is on a property that once belonged to an Olympic horse rider. Credit Stefan Ruiz The hourlong train ride from New York City to Morris County, N.J., cuts through the dreary industrial swamp of the Meadowlands, goes past the concrete…
The first paragraph of E. L. Konigsburg’s 1967 book “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” about two young runaways who become entangled in an art-historical mystery, is a masterpiece of graceful, efficient exposition:
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned…
Just over a month after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, The New York Times launched its first major ad campaign in recent memory. At its center was a powerful, minimalist TV commercial that debuted during the February 26 Academy Awards broadcast. In the spot,…
One More Thing Inside Apple’s Insanely Great (or Just Insane) New Mothership 05.16.17 On June 7, 2011, a local businessman addressed a meeting of the Cupertino City Council. He had not been on the agenda, but his presence wasn’t a total surprise. Earlier in the year the man had expressed his…
Dominique Nabokov Robert B. Silvers in his office at The New York Review of Books , early 1980s Bob Silvers, my friend and the editor of The New York Review , died on March 20, shortly after completing the April 6 issue. Together with Barbara Epstein, Jason Epstein, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Robert…
J urong Island, a man-made smear of sand, lies just off the southern coast of Singapore. A quarter the size of Nantucket, it is thoroughly given over to the petrochemical industry, so crowded with spindly cracking towers and squat oil-storage tanks that the landscape is a blur of brand names — BASF,…
When Dick Costolo attended the University of Michigan, in the nineteen-eighties, his major was computer science, but he was surprised to find that he also had a knack for improv comedy. After graduation, he moved to Chicago and took classes at the Second City Theatre. Unlike some of his peers…
(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) The 2016 album renaissance technically began in the early morning hours of December 13, 2013, when a former Star Search runner-up from Houston changed the game ( as she’d later put it ) with that digital drop. As we approach the third anniversary of Beyoncé’s…
In a standout year for music, these are just some of the best albums. But they’re the projects that made the format relevant again. In no particular order. Illustration by Erik Carter Frank Ocean, Endless Fresh Produce, LP When Frank Ocean’s Endless arrived by surprise on a Thursday night in August…
In September 2005, Steve Jobs gave his advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, an assignment: Come up with a campaign that clearly demonstrates the Mac's superiority to the PC. There was no deadline. Seven months, dozens of tense meetings and countless discarded ideas later, the agency produced "Get a…