Features

Uber, But for Meltdowns

Is the most highly valued company in history having an existential crisis? By Reeves Wiedeman

First She Marched, Then She Ran

One millennial’s attempt to be the youngest congresswoman in history. By Marin Cogan

What Happens Between Before and After

The side of plastic surgery that’s not often photographed. Portfolio by Lauren Greenfield

Intelligencer

The National Interest

What if the GOP’s agenda is even less popular than Trump?

Encounter

Laurie Metcalf, star of A Doll’s House, Part 2, under the spell of real dolls at the American Girl Place.

The Culture Business

The Albee estate’s misguided decision to block a Virginia Woolf production starring a black actor.

Reread: May 22, 1972

Back in 1972, I was a �recycled housewife’ � here’s what came next. The author of a controversial early New York magazine story returns.

The Cut

The Return of a Grunge Goddess Garbage’s

Shirley Manson is worried women rockers are going extinct.

Strategist

Best Bets

West Village menswears shops, updated valet stands, and how to create surfer hair.

Look Book

The �hype girl� who put Brad Pitt at ease.

Moment

Squiggles, wacky geometry: Memphis is back.

The Restaurant Review

With his posh new midtown Empellón, Alex Stupak means business.

The Dish

Could sunchokes be your next vegetable obsession?

Openings

At Cervo’s, the menu comprises raw oysters and preserved seafood, vegetables flavored with things like anchovies or bottarga, and shareable entrées like whole fish cooked on the plancha.

Openings

Kubeh is a full-fledged 60-seat restaurant devoted to and named after the dish, with five types of kubeh and four broths to go with them.

The Urban Forager

Blue Hill’s bone-ash cheese is now available for retail sale.

Culture

�I Am Not Interchangeable�

In a new film and a new play, Zoe Kazan reimagines the romantic heroine � and herself.

Swimming Upstream

What creators have to gain, and fear, in a streaming-TV world.

The Drawing I Can’t Stop Thinking About

Jerry Saltz on a great work of art from 1875 that’s never been seen in any museum.

Turning a Theater Inside Out

Moving The Great Comet from a makeshift tent to a big Broadway house.

Voted Most Inappropriate

Samantha Irby: funny, ribald, not Roxane Gay.

Have Flute, Will Rock

Political reporter David Weigel outs himself as a different kind of progressive.

The Movie Review

Christopher Plummer’s redemption with The Exception.

The Movie Review

The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie is a sorry spectacle.

The TV Review

Twin Peaks: The Return is Lynch at his most Lynchian.

The Book Review

Percival Everett’s So Much Blue is winding and beguiling.

To Do: May 31�June 14, 2017

Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

Departments

Comments: Week of May 29, 2017

Readers sound off on Ivanka Trump, the Strokes, and more.

The Approval Matrix: Week of May 29, 2017

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.