The Magazine
March 5, 2018
Reporting
Profiles
Donald Glover Can’t Save You
The creator of “Atlanta” wants TV to tell hard truths. Is the audience ready?
Letter from Medellin
The Afterlife of Pablo Escobar
In Colombia, a drug lord’s posthumous celebrity brings profits and controversy.
The Control of Nature
Direct Eye Contact
The most sophisticated, most urban, most reproductively fruitful of bears.
A Reporter at Large
The N.R.A. Lobbyist Behind Florida’s Pro-Gun Policies
Marion Hammer’s unique influence over legislators has produced laws that dramatically alter long-held American norms.
The Critics
Pop Music
U.S. Girls’ Collection of Characters
Art by women is often considered meaningful only to the extent that it looks inward, but Meghan Remy prefers to examine the lives of others.
Books
Jordan Peterson’s Gospel of Masculinity
How did a once obscure academic become the Internet’s most revered—and reviled—intellectual?
The Art World
Aesthetics and Politics at the New Museum’s Triennial
“Songs for Sabotage” risks being sabotaged by a willful naïveté, but individual artists transcend the show’s mandate.
On Stage
Tiffany Haddish’s Onstage Experiments
The “She Ready” tour is at once an act of creation and an act of self-creation.
Books
“Speak No Evil”: A Novel of Coming Out in America
The author of “Beasts of No Nation” writes a new book about sexuality, race, and cultural dislocation.
The Talk of the Town
Lost and Found Dept.
Uncovering Thomas Nast’s First Drawings of Abraham Lincoln
The cartoonist’s early rough sketches of his great subject turned up recently in an old scrapbook.
Montgomery Postcard
How to Make a Hate Map
Neo-Nazis and anti-immigrant groups are having a banner year in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s guide to hate in America.
Sidekick Dept.
A Shoemaker’s Acting Début in “Phantom Thread”
George Glasgow crafted footwear for Daniel Day-Lewis. Then the actor asked him to be in his movie.
Legacy Dept.
Edna O’Brien Has Been #MeToo-ing for Fifty Years
The Irish novelist and Colum McCann parse the movement over tea.
Comment
Robert Mueller’s Distinctly American Indictments
For all the talk of Kremlin puppetry, the heart of the offenses involves the startling sums of money in normal American politics.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
No Way to Say Goodbye
Cartoons
1/15
“Don’t forget to call it a ‘procedure’—makes it less scary.”
Fiction
Fiction
Seeing Ershadi
Poems
Goings On About Town
Bar Tab
The Way Station, a “Doctor Who”-Themed Bar
At this Prospect Heights spot, the cocktails, the trivia, and even the bathroom relate to the British sci-fi television series.
Classical Music
Pandemonium
Art
The Unorthodox, Uncanny Eye of David Bowie
The Brooklyn Museum displays four hundred items—costumes, handwritten lyrics, album art, videos—from the artist’s personal archive.
Night Life
ESG’s Otherworldly Sound
The seminal eighties art band celebrates forty years of its dance-punk music.
Dance
Flames Rise Again
Tables for Two
Jewish-Grandma Cooking for the Small-Plate Generation
A new restaurant and bar above the 2nd Ave Deli refines, with admirable panache, a cuisine that is fading away.
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