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February 20, 2017 Issue
Cover Story
How Many Chances Do You Get to Be an American Hero?
John McCain the Republican versus John McCain the patriot. By Gabriel Sherman On the Cover: Senator John McCain. Photograph by Nigel Parry for New York Magazine.
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Features
Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games
Life is rigged, play is meritocratic. By Frank Guan
As American As Refusing to Stand for the National Anthem
Sports may never be a politics-free zone again. By Reeves Wiedeman
Intelligencer
Talk
How Trump’s surrogates are revolutionizing the language of lying.
92 Minutes With Glenn Close
Back on Broadway for a second turn in Sunset Boulevard.
Brand Names
Melania and Ivanka Trump have shed their sex-sells pasts. So now what are they hawking?
The Cut
American Fashion Confronts America
With the most-anticipated collection of Fashion Week leading the way. By Cathy Horyn
Strategist
Best Bets
Australian denim in Soho, a holistic-care pharmacy in Williamsburg, and a women’s-only salon in Bay Ridge.
Look Book
The marionette collector whose life consists of his toy dog, golf, and cigars.
Properties
Life in Trump buildings: the protesters, the new frisson, and the extremely clean floors.
The Restaurant Review
At White Gold, April Bloomfield’s butcher-shop-restaurant, it’s all about the meat.
The Dish
Untitled’s lettuce wrap is a fish taco so good it doesn't need a tortilla.
Where (and What) You’ll Be Eating Next
13 promising restaurants opening before spring.
Culture
Glass Ceiling
Sally Field on acting as a form of resistance.
The Menagerie Dream Team
Of the seven previous Broadway productions of The Glass Menagerie, which foursome would be the all-time greatest?
Later, Haters
The women of Girls talk diversity, backlash, and the only character to have matured.
In the Room
Inside the Dirty Projectors’ Joni Mitchell�inspired studio.
The Romantic Comedy Is Not Dead
It’s just not the same as you remember.
The 34 Best Romantic Comedies of the Past Decade
Including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Her, and Obvious Child.
Why A-List Actresses Don’t Make Romantic Comedies Anymore
Stars like Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan made their careers in rom-coms. Why have their successors stayed away?
The Movie Review
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is the satirical horror movie we’ve been waiting for.
The Book Review
J.M. Coetzee’s starkly beautiful new novel is born of his apathy.
The TV Review
Legion is a decadently imaginative trip.
To Do: February 22�March 8, 2017
Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of February 20, 2017
Readers sound off on Trumpism, the new editor of Vogue Arabia, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of February 20, 2017
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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