The Magazine
The Style Issue
March 18, 2019
Reporting
Showcase
Kwame Brathwaite’s Grandassa Models
A look inside “Black Is Beautiful,” the first monograph dedicated to the photographer’s work.
Annals of Design
The Luxury Paint Company Creating a New Kind of Decorating Anxiety
It used to be chic to have white walls. Now stylish homeowners are paying consultants to find the perfect color.
Letter from Hollywood
Bill Hader Kills
With “Barry,” his bleakly funny TV show, Hollywood’s favorite impressionist reinvents himself as a writer-director.
The World of Fashion
Outdoor Voices Blurs the Lines Between Working Out and Everything Else
The brand’s clothes perfectly suit a cultural moment when improving your life style has become a job that’s supposed to be fun.
Profiles
Virgil Abloh, Menswear’s Biggest Star
How the creative director brought something new to high fashion.
The Critics
On Television
On “Shrill” and “Better Things,” Women Stop Being Good Sports
In their respective starring roles, Aidy Bryant and Pamela Adlon play messy, interesting characters who refuse to make nice.
Pop Music
Helado Negro’s New Songs Bask in a Sense of Discovery
Listening to “This Is How You Smile,” the latest release from Roberto Carlos Lange, one is drawn to the artist’s capacity to give shape to the ephemeral.
The Theatre
The Bel Air Battleground of “Daddy”
In Jeremy O. Harris’s new play, Alan Cumming and Ronald Peet embody a war between art, style, and spirituality.
A Critic at Large
John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been
A quarter century after his death, his austere, unflashy masterpiece was acclaimed a “perfect novel.” Does it belong to a larger lineage of neglected modern literature?
The Current Cinema
Captain Marvel Saves a Movie
The action sequences are derivative and the backstory confounding, but Brie Larson, as the movie’s titular heroine, executes her duties with resourcefulness and wit.
The Talk of the Town
Postscript
King Karl Is Dead, and Fashion Is Free
For sixty-five years, at Fendi and Chanel, Lagerfeld churned out collections—but never changed the way we dress. He revered beauty too much to despoil it by radical experiment.
Dept. of Prequels
Young Roger Stone’s Cutthroat Teen Spirit
Stone’s student-council playbook? Girls in miniskirts! Free candy! A homophobic whispering campaign! And a peculiar diversion called Slave Day.
The Boards
A Half Century of Sondheim Collaborations
Paul and Alex Gemignani, a father-and-son conductor-singer duo, kibbitz about their long-running engagement with the composer in “the house that ‘Gypsy’ built.”
Rag Trade
A Designer Who Dresses Horses and Humans
With her fireproof stable blankets and her little black dresses, Dalia MacPhee makes garments fit for the paddock or the paparazzi.
Comment
The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump
Real and reasonable arguments among congressional Democrats—and, indeed, among the public—range from the practical to the procedural.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
Your Guide to the Cool New Airport Terminal
Cartoons
1/14
“They’re more aesthetic than practical.”
Fiction
Fiction
Color and Light
Poems
Goings On About Town
Goings On About Town
Psychedelic Outer-Space Jazz at the Mercury Lounge
The London-based trio The Comet Is Coming combines a vintage sound palette with danceable grooves.
Tables for Two
A Pop-Up Goes Permanent at Oxalis
With a tasting menu that’s a fine-dining bargain, the chef Nico Russell pursues perfection—very cautiously.
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