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In its second season, The Pitt’s selfconfidence brings blind spots MOVIES by Bilge Ebiri The Testament of Ann Lee doubles as musical and exercise in ecstasy THEATER by Sara Holdren A new production of Bug is muted where it needs to make us squirm

When a Son Abuses a Daughter

Sibling sexual abuse forces parents to make impossible choices, rips families apart, and may be far more prevalent than we’d like to admit.

REASONS TO LOVE NEW YORK

Hannah La Follette Ryan, the photographer-slash-anthropologist behind the Instagram account @subwayhands, has noticed that young people are sharing their wired headphones while riding the train, as they did in the pre-airpod days of yore (see p.23). So...

THE CULTURATI 50

68 While you were watching them, they were watching each other. We asked 50 of the year's most notable culture-makers about what they consumed in 2025. Including why Lorde couldn't get enough of the incest plot on The White Lotus, how Adam Scott fell...

The Nepo-baby Class of 2025

Introducing the newest crop of famous progeny

The Making of ‘The Watch List’

To create our portfolio of up-and-coming Democrats (p.36), photographer Elinor Kry, and her assistant, Nadine Zhan, drove 10,157 miles around the country in September and October. All of the portraits were taken in the same armchair.

The 12th-floor Dragnet

Families are being wrenched apart by ICE in downtown Manhattan.

Critics

theater by Sara Holdren Jamie Lloyd’s Waiting for Godot contains too little of Beckett’s vigor books by Jack Denton Thomas Pynchon delivers his most urgent novel yet with Shadow Ticket architecture by Justin Davidson The tragedy of Downtown Brooklyn

TRUMP’S POLICE STATE

Together, KRISTI NOEM and COREY LEWANDOWSKI Are Building TRUMP’S POLICE STATE

Fish Out of Water

When the world drops out from under us, we turn to intangible sources of certainty: God, if you believe, or the universe, or tarot cards, or some high-vibrational being who can divine a murky future. For Lizzo, that’s Wendy, a psychic medium who works...

The Real Story of the CYRUS WOMEN

AND: VIVIAN WILSON Comes of Age SARAH PAULSON’S Victory Lap The Temptations of ANDREW GARFIELD ALSO: Would You Take Mental-health Advice From a Celebrity? Elizabeth Gilbert Breaks Our Hearts, Again Why Everyone Looks 35 Now

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movies by Bilge Ebiri With Weapons, Zach Cregger delivers a horror film that’s also a twisty-turny hoot theater by Sara Holdren Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night is too intent on jollying us along tv by Roxana Hadadi Over eight episodes, The...

The Crypto Gangsters Have Arrived

What happened in the Prince Street townhouse where an Italian tourist was allegedly held captive and tortured?

‘I Feel Bad for That Girl Sometimes’

Jennifer love hewitt is cheerfully explaining the concept of L.A.’S Universal Citywalk. She had suggested we meet here on a Monday morning and pulled up in a white SUV, hopping out at the valet parking, all five-foot-two of her, in a bright-pink...

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movies by Alison Willmore James Gunn’s Superman is a happy return to comicbook nerdery tv by Kathryn Vanarendonk The new season of The Bear finds its strength in sentimentality podcasts by Nicholas Quah The Retrievals interrogates the pain of...

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movies by Bilge Ebiri 28 Years Later is choppy, muddled, strange—and unforgettable theater by Jackson Mchenry For a queer romance, Prince Faggot can’t break free of convention music by Craig Jenkins Benson Boone tries a little too hard...

How Can Anyone Keep Up? Anonymous confessions of people who feel they can never have enough. Plus: The house manager, the private chef, and the Japanese melon that scream status.

Anxious dispatches from an enclave teeming with status-and-wealth-obsessed New Yorkers.

CRIMES OF THE CENTURY

Ever since the horrors of World War II, the world has attempted to prevent, even in wartime, the morally unconscionable: the purposeful killing of noncombatants, the decimation of civilian property, the denial of humanitarian assistance. Netanyahu’s...

THE GREAT REALIGNMENT

HOLLYWOOD HAS LEFT LOS ANGELES And moved to Austin, or Atlanta, or basically anywhere else, by Lane Brown (p.22); AN ORIGINAL VAMPIRE MOVIE LED BY MICHAEL B. JORDAN REVIVED THE BOX OFFICE But can the Sinners star find success on his own? by Zak...

Best Bets

Noise-canceling headphones that are comfortable for hours on end. Plus: Work out like Naomi Watts, apartment grilling, and a radish garden.

The Secret Struggles of John Fetterman

Critics

In its second season, The Last of Us grows up theater by Jackson Mchenry The Broadway adaptation of Smash is the wrong kind of dud music by Craig Jenkins Bon Iver takes a pop turn in Sable, Fable

Michelle Williams

Which is also a comedy about dying.

The Way the Next Pandemic Works

Bird flu has mainly been a threat to animals and the people who raise them—so far.

Who Killed the Footless Goose?

Andy and his shoes were an inspiration to children everywhere. Then he lost his head.

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After Lorne

The succession anxiety looming over Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary.

Critics

by Craig Jenkins On Eusexua, FKA Twigs treats listeners to a diary of dance movies by Bilge Ebiri Fernanda Torres is undeniable in the Brazilian political thriller I’m Still Here books by Robert Rubsam Han Kang’s We Do Not Part stares into the...

Design Hunting

John Derian lives what he sells in his Fifth Avenue penthouse

ADRIEN BRODY, STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART

Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jon Ebeling, and Stephanie Koenig in

The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (2016).

REASON TO LOVE NEW YORK

PORTFOLIO BY DAVID LACHAPELLE

HOW EVEN THIS CITY SWUNG HARD TOWARD TRUMP.

The Hollywood Reporter

From The Social Network to Dumb Money, Ben Mezrich has developed a foolproof method for turning his books into blockbusters.

MEDIA LAST LIVING ELITES TELL ALL!

Imran Amed, Willa Bennett, Jeremy Boreing, Graydon Carter, Sewell Chan, Leroy ON and OFF Chapman Jr., Charlamagne Tha God, Eva Chen, Joanna Coles, Kaitlan Collins, Sam Dolnick, Mathias Döpfner, Stephen Engelberg, Bryan Goldberg, Emily the RECORD...

After our sons’ nursery was suddenly closed, a temporary solution dragged on for months.

THE RETURN OF TA-NEHISI COATES

A decade after “The Case for Reparations,” he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.

The People for Kamala Harris

CHLOË

PLUS: The HOLLYWOOD-TO-SEPHORA PIPELINE / Seaside SCAMMERS CLOSET CLOSE-UPS / Unquiet LUXURY / Cathy Horyn: My Style Education

POP GOES THE CLUB RAT

Are We All Bad Pet Parents?

An exhaustive exploration of this and other ethical questions plaguing our interspecies relationships.

Therapy Daddy

Phil Stutz, psychiatrist to Hollywood stars and the subject of a Jonah Hill documentary, has a vision to heal society.

The Health Issue

In 2017, 23andme began offering tests for the genetic risk of developing certain health conditions like celiac disease, Parkinson’s, and late-onset Alzheimer’s. The Alzheimer’s test will tell you if you have the gene variant APOE4, which means you have...

Hush-hush Affair

NDAS have gone from protecting corporate secrets to regulating our most intimate relationships.