The Magazine
The Style Issue
September 25, 2017
Reporting
Portfolio
How Millennials Like Their Makeup
At Beautycon—where Sephora meets Coachella—cosmetics are sold with the self-empowering language of Instagram.
The World of Fashion
The Eternal Seductive Beauty of Feathers
We’ve been dressing up as birds since the Stone Age. Eric Charles-Donatien has brought the craft of featherwork into the twenty-first century.
Profiles
Iris van Herpen’s Hi-Tech Couture
The designer combines 3-D printing and hand stitching to reimagine the possibilities of the human body.
Reporting
Hillary Clinton Looks Back in Anger
She talks about Trump, Comey, collusion, “deplorables,” and the power of sexism.
The Critics
Books
Briefly Noted
“Notes on a Foreign Country,” “Scale,” “Reading with Patrick,” and “Freud’s Trip to Orvieto.”
On Television
“The Deuce” and the Birth of Porn
The show is a classic David Simon joint, in which sex workers and porn actors are treated like any other alienated workforce.
Books
The Austere Fiction of Fleur Jaeggy
Her work sees little point in exploring happiness, productivity, or self-understanding. Her focus is the void.
Books
A Novelist’s Powerful Response to the Refugee Crisis
In Jenny Erpenbeck’s masterly “Go, Went, Gone,” a retired academic befriends asylum-seekers in Berlin.
The Current Cinema
“Mother!” and “Battle of the Sexes”
Darren Aronofsky’s thriller, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, and a chronicle of tennis and sexism, with Steve Carell and Emma Stone.
The Talk of the Town
The Pictures
Peter Landesman’s Picture of Heroism
In his new film, “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House,” the writer-director delivers a complex portrait of Deep Throat.
The Musical Life
Judy Collins and Stephen Stills’s Old Romance
The pair on touring together and on their new album, “Everybody Knows.” It’s a collaboration fifty years in the making.
L.A. Postcard
The Nazi Sites of Los Angeles
A walking tour of where the Fascists and Hitlerites gathered in California.
Comment
Irma and Our Age of Standardized Disaster
The most important lesson of the hurricane is how close to the margins many Americans are now living.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
Our Parents Are Our Future
Cartoons
1/13
"They're really comfy."
Poems
Goings On About Town
Dance
Twyla Tharp’s “The Fugue,” Revived
The choreographer’s breakthrough piece is performed by her company in New York for the first time since 2003.
Tables for Two
Paowalla Keeps the Heat Buzz Alive
The cocktails are expensive and garage-house beats course through the dining room, but none of that matters once you start eating.
Goings On About Town
Vintage Air Force 1s at MOMA
In “Items: Is Fashion Modern?,” a hundred and eleven style specimens—including a white T-shirt, a black leather jacket, and a hijab—appear in the museum.
The Theatre
The Searching Roles of Carrie Coon
After “The Leftovers” and “Fargo,” the actress is starring in the Off Broadway play “Mary Jane,” as a single mother whose child has a chronic illness.
Bar Tab
Cardiff Giant: A Low-Key Haunt for Hops Nerds
At this bar in Clinton Hill, everything is made in New York and the beer tastes much fresher than the average draught.
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