The Magazine
November 13, 2017
Goings On
The Theatre
Winter Theatre Preview
Mark Rylance returns to Broadway in “Farinelli and the King,” and “Angels in America” arrives from London.
Dance
Winter Dance Preview
Big Dance Theatre’s exploration of self-revelation, new work by three of Merce Cunningham’s collaborators, and Cuban modern dance.
Tables for Two
Belly, a Shrine to Swine
The Williamsburg establishment offers a nine-course pork-centric tasting menu, served on communal picnic tables.
Night Life
Winter Night-Life Preview
Madison Square Garden hosts Morrissey and then Shakira, and Yo La Tengo and LCD Soundsystem revive their residencies.
Art
Winter Art Preview
Michelangelo’s drawings, Edvard Munch beyond “The Scream,” and photographs by Stephen Shore and Peter Hujar.
Movies
Winter Movies Preview
Paul Thomas Anderson explores the fashion world of nineteen-fifties London in “Phantom Thread,” and Ava DuVernay directs “A Wrinkle in Time.”
Classical Music
Winter Classical-Music Preview
Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Concerto Köln plays an all-Vivaldi evening at Alice Tully Hall, and James Levine conducts Verdi’s “Requiem.”
Bar Tab
Celestial Scenes at Mood Ring
This Bushwick bar aims to be a space for queer and trans people of color, and serves a cocktail that captures the essence of each month’s star sign.
Goings On About Town
“Once on This Island” Returns to Broadway
The newcomer Hailey Kilgore stars in the musical fable, set on a Caribbean island ravaged by storms.
The Talk of the Town
Legacy Dept.
A Fireside Chat with Pete Souza
At a recent conference in Las Vegas, Barack Obama’s official White House photographer revisited his years with the former President.
Dept. of Influence
Marc Fliedner Runs for Manhattan D.A.
On Halloween, the former prosecutor dressed up as a yellow No. 2 pencil and told people to write in his name instead of voting for Cyrus Vance, Jr.
The Pictures
Brian Selznick Traverses the Panorama
The children’s-book author visits the scale model of New York, which plays a starring role in his novel “Wonderstruck.”
Sheltering In
Terror Becomes a Teachable Moment
After a man drove a rented truck down a bike path near the West Side Highway, students in the neighborhood tried to make sense of the attack.
Comment
The Trump Administration’s Looming Political Crisis
It’s been a chaotic year since the election. But the Mueller investigation signals that the most eventful days are still ahead.
Reporting & Essays
A Reporter at Large
Where the Small-Town American Dream Lives On
As America’s rural communities stagnate, what can we learn from one that hasn’t?
The Political Scene
Is Tom Cotton the Future of Trumpism?
The junior senator from Arkansas is a hybrid of insurgent and old guard.
Our Local Correspondents
New York’s Majestic Passage in the Sky
Revamping the Bayonne Bridge to make space for megaships.
Annals of Law Enforcement
Two Murder Convictions for One Fatal Shot
In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.
Fiction
Fiction
Riddle
The Critics
Pop Music
Ty Dolla $ign and the Redesign of R. & B.
On his new album, “Beach House 3,” Ty’s spiritual change is as thorough as the transformation of his genre.
Books
Briefly Noted
“Red Famine,” “Kierkegaard’s Muse,” “Little Fires Everywhere,” and “Montpelier Parade.”
The Theatre
Acting Out in “People, Places, & Things”
Duncan Macmillan’s play is a brilliant evocation of addiction and what happens to performers when they can’t not perform.
Dancing
Mark Morris’s Azerbaijani Epic
“Layla and Majnun” is the choreographer’s most ambitious work in a decade.
The Current Cinema
Frances McDormand’s Cry for Justice
Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” gives the actress her greatest role since “Fargo.”
Poems
Cartoons
1/8
“I spy with my little eye something heading toward divorce.”
Cartoon Caption Contest
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