Rob Delaney 10 min read· Sep 17, 2018 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Henry Delaney with his dad Note: I wrote all of this except the last paragraph in April or May of 2017. I changed names as well, except for Henry’s. I’m on the bus to go see my son Henry at the hospital. I have…

True to its title, Crazy Rich Asians features two hours of Asian people doing crazy and rich things. They purchase million-dollar-plus earrings; they fly helicopters to a bachelor party hosted on a floating container ship; and they host a wedding in an interior botanical garden, in which the bride…

Photo: Christaan Felber for Vulture Mac Miller died on September 7, 2018. This profile was reported in mid-August of that year and was originally published the day before his death. We are revisiting it in honor of the posthumous release of his album, Circles. Mac Miller is nervous. He’s pacing,…

Photo Booth September 5, 2018 The photographer Bill Cunningham had a way of looking at fashion’s transformative value, its ability to make and remake the spirit, without being sentimental about it.Photographs by Bill Cunningham / Courtesy The Bill Cunningham Foundation LLC This essay is adapted from…

An Appraisal Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? Aretha Franklin turned Otis Redding’s plea into the most empowering popular recording ever made. Credit... Lee McDonald/Las Vegas News

Personal History August 20, 2018 Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?”Illustration by Andrea Mongia Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart. For those of you who don’t know, H Mart…

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Paradoxically, modern technology may now be undermining the assumptions, social structures, and institutions required by liberal democracy.

A video showing facial recognition software in use at the headquarters of the artificial intelligence company Megvii in Beijing.Credit...Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin…

Full-frontal nudity? The actor told the director Boots Riley he’d been looking for that in a role for awhile. “‘O.K., this is the guy,” Mr. Riley thought. “This is the right kind of crazy.’”Credit...Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times The new symbol of Hollywood weird, who is starring in “Sorry to…

Above, Ryan Murphy, Spike Lee, Laverne Cox, Alison Brie, Jane Fonda, Robin Wright, and Jason Bateman. “What do you think about gas in the tank for the long term?” asks Cindy Holland, Netflix’s vice-president of original content. It’s a Tuesday morning in May, and Holland and a handful of her direct…

The Best of 2020 Best Movies Best TV Shows Best Books Best Theater Best Albums Credit... Julian Berman for The New York Times Into the Wild With Kanye West Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebra

Cultured Traveler Why should a meal on our own be uninspired or scarfed down as if consumed on the shoulder of an interstate highway? The joys of a table for one. On the left, Comptoir Turenne in the Haut Marais in Paris; on the right, a hearty meal served at one of the restaurant's sidewalk tables.…

Has it occurred to you that nobody talks about sellouts anymore? Recently on my commute I passed someone wearing an Obey shirt. I was reminded of friends and internet commenters on forums I once frequ

Elizabeth and her baby at home in Rhode Island.Credit...Alec Soth/Magnum, for The New York Times Feature In the midst of a national opioid crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own. Elizabeth and her baby at home in Rhode Island.Credit...Alec…

Tom Wolfe, 88, ‘New Journalist’ With Electric Style and Acid Pen, Dies Tom Wolfe in 1968 in Manhattan. He was known for his verbal pyrotechnics in books like “The Right Stuff,” not to mention his sart

IMAGE VIA YOUTUBE Sherrie Silver is in Istanbul, Turkey, answering questions for this interview while applying her makeup. It’s an hour before she’s due to perform, and less than 48 hours after the video she choreographed for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” went viral. Silver—who also dances in…

Critic’s Notebook Bill Cosby leaving court on Thursday after being found guilty of sexual assault. Credit Dominick Reuter/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images If a sexual predator wanted to come up with a smoke screen for his ghastly conquests, he couldn’t do better than Cliff Huxtable. Cliff was…

They come dressed in their post-brunch best. They come in packs. They come to be photographed. They flock to the sanitized byways of Williamsburg for the Dream Machine, a new and wildly Instagrammable

Meghan Markle: ‘I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.’Photograph: Hannah Mckay/Reuters I n February I saw a photo of Meghan Markle and the Duchess of Cambridge sitting next to each other at the Royal Foundation Forum , wearing colour coordinated dresses (lavender for Kate, deep purple-blue for…

"Didion was one of the boys, clearly, in the sense that men had noticed her writing and wanted to publish her. But she also couldn’t quite fit into their regime." An excerpt from Michelle Dean's new book, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion . Henry Clarke / Getty Images Joan Didion…

Steele told friends that Trump supporters were using him as a “battering ram” to “take down the whole intelligence community.” Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; photograph by Victoria Jones / PA Image / Getty Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your…

Monica Lewinsky in New York City last month. Photograph by Erik Madigan Heck. How do I know him? Where have I seen him? The Man in the Hat lookedfamiliar, I thought, as I peered over at him a second time. It was Christmas Eve 2017. My family and I were about to be seated at aquaint restaurant in…

Jacket, $4,990, by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Shirt, $480, by JW Anderson Your coffee table could use some style. Click here to subscribe to GQ . Spring 2016. Somewhere in Northern Italy. A 20-year-old from New York arrives six weeks before the rest of a movie cast to learn two instruments…

J ean Liu has a vision. Not far in the future, the president of Didi Chuxing, the world’s largest ride-sharing service, imagines calling a car to her Beijing home. “I probably don’t even need to use this,” she says, holding up her smartphone. “Now it’s just some cool audio app that allows me to just…

Paul Thomas Anderson wandered down the hallway of the house he was renting in Encino, California, this summer, past his office, where a lamp illuminated a hardback of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and a pack of American Spirits, and then he turned right, into the room he'd been using to edit his…

A Reporter at Large As Donald Trump surrenders America’s global commitments, Xi Jinping is learning to pick up the pieces. January 1, 2018 In an unfamiliar moment, China’s pursuit of a larger role in the world coincides with America’s pursuit of a smaller one.Illustration by Paul Rogers When the…

On Sunday, HBO aired the series finale of The Leftovers. The show, created by Damon Lindelof and based on Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel of the same name, examined the social, psychological, and spiritual effects of an event, called the Sudden Departure, in which 2% of the world’s population simply…

Greta and Chris Gerwig in Washington Square Park. Credit Kathy Lo for The New York Times The first New Yorker I ever knew was my mother, Chris Gerwig. I grew up in Sacramento, and that was the only place I’ve ever known her to call home. She had, in fact, lived in Brooklyn briefly as a child, but…

MILAN, Italy — Last week was Rick Owens Week in the global fashion media. His first-ever retrospective — highlighting the full range of his creativity, from clothes and accessories to furniture design and visual records of the often extraordinary performance pieces that pass for fashion shows in his…

When Blondie burst onto the music scene in the mid-1970s, its über-cool lead singer, Debbie Harry , wore whatever she cobbled together from her wardrobe. She did her own hair and makeup, and only upped her fashion game after a friend, the emerging designer Stephen Sprouse, began bringing over slip…

Ten days before Donald Trump took on Colin Kaepernick and the NFL and Stephen Curry and the NBA, and before LeBron James, one of the most famous and popular humans in America, called the president of the United States a "bum" on Twitter, I asked him if he thought his adversarial stance against Trump…

The Wing’s founders, Lauren Kassan and Audrey Gelman, at the new SoHo location. Hilary Swift for The New York Times From the doorstep of 52 Mercer Street in SoHo on a recent Thursday night, a line of women mostly in their 20s and 30s, exuding anticipation, snaked halfway around the next block. A man…

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Ghosts of the Tsunami | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | October 2017 | 19 minutes (5,224 words) I met a priest in northern Japan who exorcised the spirits of people who had drowned in the tsunami. The ghosts did not appear in large numbers until autumn of that year, but Reverend Kaneta’s first case of…

This story is one of the seven covers of T Magazine’s Greats issue , on newsstands Oct. 22. IN THE COUNTRY of Belgium, in the meadows outside Antwerp, in a garden stalky with delphiniums, the fashion designer Dries Van Noten is considering a rose. Van Noten, who is 59, is one of those rare people…

An addiction specialist said that the Sacklers’ firm, Purdue Pharma, bears the “lion’s share” of the blame for the opioid crisis. Illustration by Ben Wiseman The north wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a vast, airy enclosure featuring a banked wall of glass and the Temple of Dendur, a…

Sitting beside the church, drinking from a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, he thought he had to go in and shoot them. They were a small prayer group—a rising-star preacher, an elderly minister, eight women, one young man, and a little girl. But to him, they were a problem. He believed that, as black…

Olive Yang, in Muse, Myanmar, in 2015. According to relatives, she wore boys’ clothes and frequently fell in love with her brothers’ romantic interests. Gabrielle Paluch MUSE, Myanmar — She was born to royalty in British colonial Burma, but rejected that life to become a cross-dressing warlord whose…