She's Been Through It

Olivia Rodrigo found a winning formula, but she's not content to repeat it.

The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes

The most overrated metric in entertainment is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked-and yet has Hollywood in its grip.

Led Around By It

When Bradley Cooper plays director, he likes to go big.

The Chiang Mai Chi Dog Finds a Permanent Home

Little Grenjai's Thai burgers and breakfast congee arrive in Bed-Stuy.

Bistro du Jour

Libertine is a new (and pricey) take on an old idea.

The Schoolyard: Caitlin Moscatello

Did New York City Forget How to Teach Children to Read? This fall, Eric Adams is pivoting to phonics.

279 MINUTES WITH ...Gisele Barreto Fetterman

She has steered her family through hell and back. What's a few more fires?

Neighborhood News: Four Precarious Plots on Fifth Avenue

A construction project has become a nightmare for the neighbors.

PROTECTING A PREDATOR

HOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IGNORED WOMEN, UNDERMINED PROSECUTORS, AND ALLOWED ONE OF ITS OB/GYNS TO ABUSE HUNDREDS OF PATIENTS.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Biden or Bust: Why isn't a mainstream Democrat challenging the president?

116 Minutes With ...Ben Leventhal

The co-founder of Eater and Resy has a new idea to further digitize dining.

All Eyes on Lily Gladstone

The actress is the unflinching face of an American tragedy in Martin Scorsese's historical epic.

Red-Hot American Satire

Leslie Odom Jr. returns to Broadway in a show more skeptical than the one that made him famous.

Beauty With a Side of Body Horror

In Mona Awad's novels, the quest for perfection sends women over the edge.

Golden Child

The magnificent Perelman Performing Arts Center is a standout at the reconstructed World Trade Center site. Will people come?

Sampha's Circle of Life

His first album tackled loss and made him a star. On his follow-up, he writes from a happier place: fatherhood.

Fall TV Can't Stop Looking Backward

This season, streaming embraces a model that makes it safer to tell stories about the past.

Open House

Architect Charles Renfro bought the simple, first house Horace Gifford designed on Fire Island and only added outdoor rooms.

The Long, Long Road to Treating Long COVID

Lisa Sanders made a name for herself as a doctor-detective who wrote about patients' medical mysteries. But what happens when the mystery is too difficult to solve?

THE FINAL SONDHEIM

When he died in 2021, the composer had been working for years on a new musical with the playwright David Ives and the director Joe Mantello. This is the story of how they made it.

Screen Time: John Herrman

Nothing on Your Phone Is Safe From Ads - And few tech companies can resist also becoming media companies.

Neighborhood News: It's Not a Chess Club. It's Club Chess.

The game of kings has become an unlikely downtown craze.

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice

The Mug Shot and the Tweet - Trump's Fulton County Jail appearance was the 2024 race's opening bell.

POWER BOTTOMS

The NYU classmates the year's behind most delightfully dumb comedy.

What Is Greta Gerwig Trying to Tell Us?

From Barnard to Barbie, the director has always been interested in female ambition, including her own

From Ecuador to the 7 Train

As the city's migrant population surges, some of the youngest spend their days selling candy underground.

A Tribeca House, No Longer Divided

Art collector Paige West spreads out over six bold floors.

Scam Likely

The co-director and the star of the docuseries Telemarketers started filming at their own office-even before learning they were part of a nationwide grift.

The song of Summer Is a Meme

Flyana Boss are running laps around TikTok and the music industry with \"You Wish.\"

The Quilted Giraffe

TikTok would have loved the beggar’s purse.