New York Magazine

In the Apr. 15–28 issue: Olivia Nuzzi on “wonder boy” Pete Buttigieg. Plus: Art & Design, by Wendy Goodman; the half-billion dollar “Leonardo”; Natasha Lyonne, Annette Bening, and more.

Welcoming Curbed

The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event • Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else’s.

I Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up • The creator of ‘The Death of Stalin’ and ‘Veep’ on a week that surpassed satire.

Good Genes • The president’s lifelong obsession with his superior DNA is put to the test.

Claudia Conway Is Not Your Savior • The problem of Washington’s second-most-captivating character.

NEW YORK ON THE BRINK ...OF SOMETHING...

THE CITY’S “PERMANENT GOVERNMENT” HAS ALWAYS BUILT ITS WAY OUT OF CRISIS. BUT WHAT IF IT CAN’T? • The Panic Attack of the Power Brokers

GOVERNOR COVID • In conversation with Andrew Cuomo.

WHEN NIMBY MET MAGA • Liberals on the Upper West Side wanted to oust hundreds of homeless men from a local hotel. Then Tucker Carlson took up their cause.

THE NEXT MAYOR’S NEXT CITY • In a year, Bill de Blasio’s successor will get the chance to make New York life easier, nicer, and fairer—or just keep us going the way we were before.

The Pandemic Pet

THE PANDEMIC PET

Who’s That on Your Arugula?

THE OPS CROP

Where to Buy One

THE MARLOW & DAUGHTERS CREW

And Some Things You’ll Need to Care for Them • According to snail owners.

And How Long Do They Live?

A Bed-Stuy Stoop Sale • Organized by a fashion editor and a photographer, a sale where passersby picked up a snakeskin hat, white leather bell-bottoms, and a pink kimono.

THE LOOK BOOK: BED-STUY STOOP SHOPPERS

When Nest Was What’s Next • Looking back at the fearlessly eccentric magazine that Condé Nast was too afraid to buy.

Midtown As Microcosm • When it’s back, the city will be too.

Sohla El-Waylly, Food Wizard • After leaving Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen, the chef now has her own show—where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.

Miley Cyrus’s Best Covers, Ranked

It Came From New York • Disco. The freak show. Neoconservatism. Q-tips. They all started in the world’s most creative, inventive city.

Meanwhile, in Another World • How a Nicole Kidman–Hugh Grant drama series wound up becoming an inadvertent time capsule.

THE STAR TRAJECTORIES OF NICOLE KIDMAN AND HUGH GRANT • It feels like Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman must have worked with each other in the past, right? Nope. Their paths didn’t cross until now—but their careers did follow remarkably similar patterns.

Best Sex I Ever Read • Emily M. Danforth on the Ineffable Pleasures of Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt

Reality TV Glows Up • Docuseries are television’s latest prestige offering, but they’re not so different from their trashier predecessors.

His Beautiful Despair • Sufjan Stevens’s latest represents both an evolution and a return.

Daddy’s Day Out • Don’t let the frivolity fool you—deeper anxieties are afoot in On the Rocks.

Angry Bird • The story of John Brown, told with righteous fury.

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

Billion Dollar Loser

THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.