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    Hairbrush, Mirror and Jewelry Jar
    What My Clients Told Me About Their WivesMy allegiance was forever shifting between the men I went to bed with and the women back at home.
    By Charlotte Shane
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    Shigeru Ban’s Dazzling Architecture of TimeThe architect’s approach (and choice of materials) embraces simplicity and change.
    By Philip Jodidio
    Introduction by Justin Davidson
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    ‘Everything on That Island Wanted to Kill You’The very first crew of Survivor slept tent-less on a beach covered in rats and snakes because they smelled a hit TV show. And then it got worse.
    By Emily Nussbaum
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    My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired.How failure changed my relationship to work.
    By Samhita Mukhopadhyay
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    What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.
    By Anastasia Berg
  6. great rooms
    ‘If I Had to Leave This Place, I Would Probably Leave New York’At home with Brooklyn artists from three generations of loft living — all protected by Loft Law.
    By Wendy Goodman
  7. the work of art
    How’d You Make That?Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough.
    By Adam Moss
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    She Had Razors Hidden in Her HairOn the glory of blaxploitation icon Pam Grier’s two greatest onscreen catfights.
    By Odie Henderson
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    This Is Where Our Game BeganBaseball is the American pastoral sport, you say? Tell it to the New Yorkers who created it.
    By Kevin Baker
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    Moonlight on the window
    The TheftFirst, there was the burglary. Then everything went missing.
    By Sloane Crosley
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    ‘The Last Samurai’ Director Ed Zwick on Tom Cruise’s ‘Intimidating’ EnergyThe Last Samurai director Ed Zwick on the “joyous, challenging, and exhausting” experience of working with Tom Cruise.
    By Ed Zwick
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    Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated MediaKara Swisher’s front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.
    By Kara Swisher
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    The Busiest Basement in Jackson HeightsThe pandemic turned Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo into an activist. Then the migrant crisis arrived.
    By Eric Klinenberg
  14. first person
    Donald Trump Assaulted Me, But He’s Not Alone on My List of Hideous Men“I made a list of hideous men in my life. It includes the president — who assaulted me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago.”
    By E. Jean Carroll
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    I Was Told No One Wants Fat GirlsGrowing up, my body was a punch line.
    By Kate Manne
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    Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Walked So The Row Could RunA new book about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s style shows how she is the blueprint for minimalist brands, from Jil Sander to Bottega Veneta.
    By Sunita Kumar Nair
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    How Barbra Streisand Got The Broadway Album Made“Why are you singing these cockamamie songs?” the record executives asked her.
    By Barbra Streisand
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    ‘Ray, This Is a Religion’How the world’s largest hedge fund lost two top hires — and was paralyzed by puddles of pee.
    By Rob Copeland
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    Truth Is What a Comedian Makes of ItComics have long strived for some version of authenticity. But what that looks like — and how genuine it is — continues to evolve.
    By Jesse David Fox
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    Walking While BlackZiwe details a chilling roadside encounter in her debut essay collection, Black Friend.
    By Ziwe
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    ‘I Don’t Want to Be Erased’Frustrated by his failing health and fretting about his own legacy, Lou Reed spent his final days intent on making something “really astonishing.”
    By Will Hermes
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    How Rupert Murdoch Decided to Dump Tucker CarlsonThe 92-year-old media baron was fond of the Fox News host — but Donald Trump complicates everything.
    By Michael Wolff
  23. the money game
    That’s What I Call PonzinomicsWith Sam Bankman-Fried, Gisele, and a credulous Michael Lewis at the zenith of crypto hype.
    By Zeke Faux
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    I Killed GodMaria Bamford’s eulogy for her beloved best friend.
    By Maria Bamford
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    ‘Can We Sing With You?’How a chance encounter at New York’s Peppermint Lounge birthed the Ronettes.
    By Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz
  26. mothers and daughters
    My Mother the CreatorThe daughter of artist Jennifer Bartlett unpacks and reflects on her complicated legacy — at home and in the art world.
    By Alice Carrière
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    ‘Let’s Let the Squirrel Out of the Bag’On the Anchorman set, improv-comedy masters had the freedom to reimagine the film one line at a time.
    By Saul Austerlitz
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    In Video Games, There’s a Fine Line Between Difficulty and DisrespectFromSoftware’s miserable, massively popular titles complicate what it means to “enjoy” a game.
    By Jordan Minor
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    The Essay That Started It AllNatalie Beach reckons with her decision to write about her relationship with Caroline Calloway and everything that came next.
    By Natalie Beach
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    ‘I Gotta Go Explain to People What Emo Is’The punk subgenre wasn’t supposed to go mainstream. Then MTV met Dashboard Confessional.
    By Chris Payne
  31. first person
    Making It As a Model Meant Hiding I Was TransI kept my real self a secret for years.
    By Geena Rocero
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    A Harry Potter Fan’s Dilemma‘What role does shame play in this dynamic between fan and fallen artist?’
    By Claire Dederer
  33. motherhood
    We Don’t Perform Motherhood for Our KidsI consistently fail to achieve my fantasy of maternal grace — but you’d never know it from my Instagram.
    By Sara Petersen
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    Drag, Disney, and the Gospel of Alyssa EdwardsIn a new book of essays, Zach Zimmerman undergoes a Drag Race–inspired queer baptism.
    By Zach Zimmerman
  35. first person
    My Marriage Was Never the Same After ThatIn 2016, I wrote a poem that went viral. My home life got complicated.
    By Maggie Smith
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    How Bret Hart Wrestled Back Into the StoryThe WWF icon had his legacy buried for years —until he decided to play Vince McMahon’s game.
    By Abraham Josephine Riesman
  37. power
    Surveillance Is Made of DogsHow not to infiltrate an NSA building.
    By Kerry Howley
  38. books
    A Visit to the Home of Dansk’s Most Prolific DesignerAn excerpt from Jens Quistgaard: The Sculpting Designer.
    By The Editors
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    ‘It Would Have Been Like a Scene From One of My Movies.’A stranger–than–Pulp Fiction Oscars tale confirmed.
    By Michael Schulman
  40. big tech
    The Silicon Valley LoopHow the dot-com crash created Palo Alto’s clueless investor class.
    By Malcolm Harris
  41. first person
    It Wasn’t Just a BreakupHow the catastrophic end of my relationship led to a diagnosis that changed my life.
    By Camonghne Felix
  42. health
    How Our Definition of Healthy Fails Black WomenWhat I’ve learned in my years as a dietitian.
    By Jessica Wilson
  43. first person
    I Was the Ideal WomanAs a former model, I know the dark side of having 17-year-olds hawk anti-wrinkle creams.
    By Paulina Porizkova
  44. art
    A Painting for a World in CollapseWhat The Raft of the Medusa reveals about contemporary political art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. first person
    Easy TargetI was harassed and assaulted in broad daylight. Would bystanders have intervened if I was white?
    By Vanessa A. Bee
  46. crime
    Inside the Ransomware Gangs That Extort HospitalsThey shut down patient care and put lives at risk. Would the pandemic finally slow them down?
    By Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden
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    The Day Deadwood DiedHow a single phone call and “a clash of fucking egos,” as star Ian McShane put it, led to the abrupt end of the beloved HBO series.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz and Jeremy Fassler
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    What Happened When I Started Going Back to the TrackHow the TV series Luck coincided with the biggest disaster in David Milch’s life.
    By David Milch
  49. fiction
    The Empty Nest: An Excerpt From The DeceptionsIn The Deceptions, a poet balances marriage, betrayal, and mythology at the Met.
    By Jill Bialosky
  50. politics
    Who’s the Change Agent Now?Joe Biden is delivering breakthroughs that long eluded Barack Obama. Who understands the presidency best?
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
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