Features

Is Anybody Home at HUD?

Led by Secretary Ben Carson, the Housing department could soon be a shell of its Great Society self. By Alec MacGillis

'Am I an Accomplice to This Terrible Thing That’s Happening?'

Federal employees consider what it would take for them to walk out the door. By Nick Tabor

This Is How Sexism Works in Silicon Valley

I lost my gender-discrimination lawsuit. But I don’t regret bringing it. By Ellen Pao

Intelligencer

The National Interest

Trump explodes the GOP’s southern strategy. By Jonathan Chait

Encounter

Dan Doctoroff was slow to love New York but now can’t stop planning its future. By Carl Swanson

Inkwell

Michiko Kakutani, the last �Voice of God� book critic. By Boris Kachka

Reread: September 10, 1973

Forty-four years ago, Nora Ephron dissected the artifice of the �Battle of the Sexes.�

The Cut

Two for One

A pair of close friends, Amilna Estevão and Mayowa Nicholas, try on the season’s minimal tailoring.

Strategist

Fall Preview: New Restaurants

Claro, Celestine, Zauo, and more.

Spaghetti and Meatballs for the Masses

Mark Ladner’s counter-service Pasta Flyer can cook your penne in ten seconds.

The Comeback: Pazzo Redux

Pino Luongo revisits his past.

The Piescape

Pizza from near and far.

Italian Flair in Sheridan Square

The Via Carota owners modeled Pisellino after some of their favorite haunts.

Introducing Sunny Lee

From fine dining to fried kimchee.

Frenchette Is a Fresh Start

After years building the McNally brasserie brand, two veteran chefs want to establish their own.

Grand Entrances

Two international superstar chefs open their first American outposts.

Fall Preview: Stores

First looks, just opened, best bets, and more.

Fall Preview: Nightlife

Including Staten Island oenophiles, ’90s-Knicks fans, and dogs.

Culture

Just Kids

For the tight-knit child stars of Stranger Things, instant stardom hasn’t changed a thing. Almost.

Laid Bare

For Maggie Gyllenhaal, taking a role on The Deuce was a trust exercise, in more ways than one.

Fall Preview: TV

From Stranger Things to Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Sight Unseen

There’s a reason Darren Aronofsky doesn’t want you to know anything about his latest film, Mother!

Fall Preview: Movies

Pitch Perfect 3, Justice League, The Last Jedi, and more.

Someone Great Is Back

James Murphy has reunited LCD Soundsystem and made a comeback album, and he doesn’t care if that’s a cliché.

Fall Preview: Music

Including one from each Gallagher, Tori Amos, Miley Cyrus, Fall Out Boy, and more.

Fall Preview: Art

Kara Walker, the Whitney, and more.

Ai Weiwei’s Neighborhood

�It is like presenting yourself to an old lover; to give to the city what I never had a chance to achieve when I was there.�

The Rise and Return of Jesmyn Ward

From small-town Mississippi to an out-of-the-blue National Book Award � then back to Mississippi to write her third novel.

Fall Preview: Books

Works from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Hillary Clinton, and more much-anticipated titles.

Julie Taymor Flies Again

Out of the spiderweb, into M. Butterfly.

Fall Preview: Theater

Tiny Beautiful Things, As You Like It, M. Butterfly, and more.

Fall Preview: Classical

American Ballet Theater, the New York Philharmonic, and more.

Fall Preview: Critics

Jerry Saltz, Matt Zoller Seitz, and the rest of our critics weigh in on what they’re looking forward to.

Departments

Comments: Week of August 21, 2017

Commenters weigh in on the Fall Fashion Issue.

The Approval Matrix: Week of August 21, 2017

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