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REASONS TO LOVE NEW YORK RIGHT NOW

THE MAYOR HAD HIS PHONES SEIZED BY THE FBI, rents were never higher, and library hours and 3-K alike found themselves in peril. Also, it rained for eight consecutive weekends.

Power: Choire Sicha

The Devil at the Dinner Party Henry Kissinger's socialite years.

Neighborhood News: 'Sir, You Can't Park There'

A mishap in Washington Heights highlights a bad year for traffic accidents.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Nikki Haley's Rocket Ride to Second Place Her boomlet is the GOP's weakest challenge to Trump yet.

Who Gets to Protest at Columbia?

What led the university to suspend pro-Palestinian student groups.

Artists and Collectors Turn on Each Other

The Artforum letter was just the start.

It's So Easy to Be Wrong

In Lexi Freiman’s latest novel, a writer gets canceled— and decides to lean all the way in.

92NY Digs In

A venerable institution splits with much of the cultural elite.

Maybe This Time You Succeeded

Big-budget community theater should be this stupidly self-aware.

This Is Growing Up

An adaptation that feels more like a continued conversation.

Fated to Pretend

Saltburn can't decide if it wants to eat the rich or be one of them.

He's Ready to Speak on It

Billy Porter spent decades dazzling in performance before he could be himself in public. He's making up for lost time.

Brit Marling Knows Whodunit

The actress, writer, and director of mystical sci-fi returns with something fleshier: a murder-mystery series.

Carbone Goes Full Zero Bond

Major Food Group’s members-only club has landed in Hudson Yards.

Subway Fare

Under the sidewalk, Noksu shoots for the stars.

A Student of Corbu's in Nutley

Glenn Mariconda and Asaka Midorikawa’s house was designed by Edward T. Bowser Jr., who had worked with Le Corbusier.

Witnessing Gaza Through My Instagram Feed

BISAN OWDA, or wizard_bisan1, as her 2 million followers know her, was a filmmaker before the assault on Gaza began. In a video from October 12, she offers footage of her prewar office. It looks like a typical millennial media workspace: camcorders, whiteboards, couches, a fluffy cat napping across a desk. She has discovered the office was bombed. “I know it’s not a suitable time to talk about places and homes because people are losing their lives,” she says in the video, her eyes welling. ‘‘People are being killed.” Even within Gaza, there’s a hierarchy of suffering.

THE MIND-BENDING POLITICS OF RFK JR.'S SPOILER CAMPAIGN

Biden says he’s a conservative. Trump says he’s a liberal. They’e both right—and he could turn the presidential race upside down.

270 MINUTES WITH ...Paige Lorenze

The influencer is selling life in the suburbs.

Neighborhood News: 'Please God No'

Ray's takes over in Greenpoint.

The Body Politic: Rebecca Traister

Where Is the Biden Abortion Agenda? Democrats can't coast on the issue's popularity.

96 Minutes With ...Emma and Jens Grede

A big chunk of the Kardashian-Jenner family's net worth rides on one Bel Air couple.

What Erewhon Knows

In the 1960s, two Japanese macrobiotic enthusiasts started a health-food sect beloved by celebrity hippies. Fifty-seven years and a corporate makeover later, it's the most culty grocer in America.

The Power To: Berghain-ify the City

One must "come correct” to get into GeGa Japaridze and Téa Abashidze's Queens nightclub, Basement.

The Last Midnight

A dark, fragmented, and compelling final message from the master.

Don't Be Cruel

Sofia Coppola goes to Graceland.

Makeover Sequence

In The Curse, a couple's dreams of reality stardom become a nightmare.

Tracey Emin Is Serious

The artist has always worked in the confessional mode. After surviving cancer, she sees no reason to hold anything back.

Slap Me, Choke Me, Love Me

In Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Christopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza play messed-up people in a messed-up love story.