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the yesteryear issue

‘Good God, It Was Fun!’

 Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Dick Van Dyke, and more legends of Broadway reprise their most memorable characters. gallery By Mark Seliger
the yesteryear issue

How Broadway Became Broadway

 When I started as a drama critic in 1980, I learned how little I knew about how the theater business actually works. By Frank Rich
remembrance

The Most Interesting Roommate in the World

 At first, he was movie star Val Kilmer. But after weeks of us living together, he just became Val. By Will Forte

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  1. backstories
    The Kinkiest Show on TVThe new FX series Dying for Sex stars Michelle Williams as a stage 4 cancer patient on a frantic quest to figure out what turns her on.
    By Rachel Handler
  2. politics
    Good-bye, Pamela PaulThe contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  3. past is prologue
    Then They Came for People With DisabilitiesThe right-wing effort to roll back civil rights finds a new target.
    By Sarah Jones
  4. social studies
    Does Luck Exist?Lee John Whittington, a philosopher who studied luck, didn’t think “unluckiness” was a quality people had. Then he met his wife.
    By Eric Boodman
  5. relationships
    What Would You Do If Your Husband Spent $46,000 on OnlyFans?According to sex therapists, addiction to interactive sex sites is only becoming more common.
    By Carly Lewis
  6. early and often
    The (Partial) Reinvention of Andrew CuomoHe says he’s grown and learned. His brute-force takeover of the mayor’s race, at least, looks familiar
    By David Freedlander
  7. dating
    Do Straight Women Really Exist?The professor teaching the first hetero-studies course isn’t sure.
    By Jessica Bennett
  8. mysteries
    The Great 21st-Century Treasure HuntWas there a better way to spend the past decade than on a maddening, deadly, brain-scrambling search for gold hidden somewhere in the American West?
    By Benjamin Wallace
  9. performances
    The Man Who Went to Fake Prison Also Went to Real JailA crime that became a prank that became a crime.
    By Matt Stieb
  10. crime
    A Murder Solved in DMsWhen Daisy De La O was killed, friends looked to social media for the man they suspected had done it. They found him.
    By Jennifer Swann
  11. dynasties
    The Age of Don Jr.How the ultimate failson became an edgelord whisperer and bona fide power player.
    By Nina Burleigh
  12. social studies
    Ogliastra: the Region of centenarians / Ogliastra : région des centenaires
    The Fight Over Centenarians and Blue ZonesPension fraud, faulty data, and junk science have made a mess of longevity research.
    By Kerry Howley
  13. chapters
    Graydon Carter’s Vanity Fair HazingThe staff hated me. The advertisers were in revolt. How on earth would I survive?
    By Graydon Carter
  14. social studies
    Managers Have Won the War on Remote Work. Now Where Does Everybody Sit?Office attendance is almost back to normal, but the office has shrunk.
    By Andrew Rice
  15. set piece
    John Mulaney’s PlayhouseIn his new live talk show, the comedian is allowed to do whatever he wants. What exactly is that?
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  16. remembrance
    My Cool Friend MichelleThe kids at school misunderstood Trachtenberg. In our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.
    By Mara Wilson
  17. chapters
    In Pursuit of the Bitcoin GodYears of studying Satoshi Nakamoto led me to a new prime suspect. What if crypto’s creator isn’t the benign figure people want him to be?
    By Benjamin Wallace
  18. self
    Brain Fog Is Here to StayUntil the pandemic, I had never heard the term. Now it seems like everyone has it, whether they have long COVID or not.
    By Katie Arnold-Ratliff
  19. the money game
    Shayne Coplan’s Big Bet Is Paying OffThe 26-year-old upended political polling on his way to creating the billion-dollar betting platform Polymarket. But is it legal?
    By Jen Wieczner
  20. health
    Can Anything Stop Bird Flu?The longer we allow the virus to run rampant through animal populations, the greater our chances of disaster.
    By Christopher Cox
  21. the purge
    The Lost Do-GoodersMost Ivy Leaguers in civil service will land jobs post-DOGE. But they may not find a new calling.
    By Nick Summers
  22. stop the presses
    How Trump Is Dividing and Conquering the White House Press CorpsA spat with the Associated Press has revealed deep fissures among Washington journalists.
    By Charlotte Klein
  23. backstories
    Toni Morrison’s Lost PlayWhy did the novelist’s only staged drama disappear for so long?
    By Elon Green
  24. on location
    At Thailand’s Real White Lotus Hotel, Where the Ultrarich Get Coddled“Sometimes they’ll ask us to bring the sun.”
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  25. self
    How Balding Treatments Became the New BotoxInside the shiny new brick-and-mortar med spas trying to capitalize on receding hairlines.
    By Bianca Bosker
  26. power
    The Neo-Tantric Sex Group That Promised to ChangeISTA is dedicated to exploring people’s darkest desires. Can it root out abuse?
    By Anya Kamenetz
  27. the stunt awards
    George Miller Has Lots of Stories Left to Tell, and One of Them Is a New Mad Max“We’ve got another script.”
    By Bilge Ebiri
  28. crime
    Who Killed the Footless Goose?Thirty-three years ago, Andy was the most famous bird in America. Then he was brutally murdered.
    By Owen Long
  29. crime and punishment
    Richard Glossip and the Death Penalty Case That Went Too FarOklahoma was set to kill Richard Glossip, but he’s almost certainly innocent. Now the Supreme Court has ordered a new trial.
    By Lara Bazelon
  30. health
    There’s a Spoon’s Worth of Plastic in Our Brains. Now What?An investigation into what microplastics are doing to our bodies.
    By Carolyn Kormann
  31. the purge
    Kash Patel’s Enemies ListThe FBI is bracing for payback under Trump ultraloyalist Kash Patel.
    By Andrew Rice
  32. spring fashion
    Everybody Wanted to Save Hannah KobayashiInside the fractious race to find a missing 30-year-old woman who turned out not to be missing at all.
    By Jennifer Swann
  33. spring fashion
    Buy All This, Look RichHow Quince, the one-stop shop for everything from cashmere sweaters to caviar, seduced a generation of jaded shoppers.
    By Chantal Fernandez
  34. spring fashion
    Bienvenido a Bad Bunny’s Puerto RicoBenito Antonio Martínez Ocasio’s new album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, is a history lesson and a homecoming.
    By Jen Ortiz
  35. the law
    The Legal Star Who Ran Out of LuckHow the most influential Supreme Court lawyer of his generation gambled it all away.
    By Matt Stieb
  36. first person
    A Sandwich Killed My MomMy mother was one of ten people to die from eating liverwurst contaminated with listeria. Six months later, I second-guess every food I purchase.
    By Elaine Farley
  37. trends
    How Protein Mania Took Over the Grocery StoreAmericans can’t get enough of its favorite macronutrient. Big Food is heeding the call.
    By Chris Gayomali
  38. power
    After LorneThe ringmaster of Saturday Night Live is 80 years old. What happens to the show, not to mention American comedy, when he retires?
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  39. wealth
    How Many Adult New Yorkers Are Secretly Subsidized by Their Parents?Parents are slowly transferring trillions of dollars to their New York City children, one down payment and Via Carota tab at a time.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  40. disneyland
    Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Banished ForeverAfter waiting over a decade to get in, the Andersons were kicked out of Disneyland’s most exclusive club. They would not go willingly.
    By Justine Harman
  41. social studies
    Do Yondr Pouches Really Work?School districts love the “phone prisons.” Students have already figured out how to skirt them.
    By Juno DeMelo
  42. books
    There Is No Safe WordHow the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
    By Lila Shapiro
  43. foreign interests
    People demonstrate in support of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
    Inside Elon Musk’s Killing of USAIDSaboteurs, tears, and a last-minute push to save lives.
    By Jonathan Guyer
  44. self
    Hell Is Other People ChewingPeople with misophonia have been on a crusade for more recognition. But there’s still no consensus on what their affliction really is.
    By Melissa Dahl
  45. getting around
    The Moped KingHow an ex-delivery worker upended the streets of New York City, for better and for worse.
    By Jesse Coburn
  46. trends
    Chins Are InHypermasculine jawlines are all the rage in Hollywood. They only cost $12,000.
    By Brock Colyar
  47. profile
    Sarah McNally’s Book ClubThe owner of the McNally Jackson literary empire is reshaping the city’s reading life.
    By Matthew Schneier
  48. los angeles wildfires
    ‘My Community Is Gone. It’s Just a Curse That My House Is There.’City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll rebuild.
    By Abe Streep
  49. social studies
    The Cultural Ascendancy of the New Young RightAmong the gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America.
    By Brock Colyar
  50. abortion
    Why Were There Fetuses in Her Refrigerator?How a radical abortion opponent ended up dumpster-diving for remains.
    By Sofia Resnick
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