New York Magazine

CULTURE, POLITICS, FOOD, FASHION: A NEW YORK POINT OF VIEW. With assertive reporting and sophisticated design, New York chronicles the people and events that shape the city that shapes the world.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait • The GOP’s Quiet Authoritarian Acceleration Internal resistance to its anti-democratic turn has all but vanished.

The Group Portrait: Pilgrimage to the Meadowlands (Taylor’s Version) • How to get an army of Swifties to MetLife Stadium—and its parking lot.

Jon Pichaya Ferry • The proprietor of Brooklyn’s bones emporium promises it’s not creepy to collect human remains.

Street View: Justin Davidson • Yes, You Should Pay to Drive in Manhattan London’s 20-year experiment shows us how to carry it off.

Drew Barrymore Is Figuring It Out Live • Her RADICALLY INTIMATE,extremely strange DAYTIME SHOW has become a sensation—and as much THERAPY FOR HER as it is for her guests.

THE BINGE PURGE • Hollywood’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For the people who make TV, figuring that out will be a horror show.

The Hottest Streamer (Right Now)

HOW THE COWBOY WAS COLONIZED • TAYLOR SHERIDAN’S Yellowstone is known for being a red-state show. But its political ideology is drawn from the left.

THE SIMPSONS IS GOOD AGAIN • After 34 seasons, 750 episodes, and a decades-long funk, the beloved show innovated its way back to popularity and relevance.

THE WAY SHE TELLS IT • DEVERY JACOBS plays an impulsive teen on Reservation Dogs, but the actress, writer, and director understands the value of control.

In Conversation: CURTIS 50 CENT JACKSON • Every record label once wanted what he had (and was afraid of it). Now all of Hollywood wants it too.

The Sharpest Swiss Shears

The Best BUTCHER SHOPS • TO FIND THE SPOTS on this list, we polled dozens of food experts and savvy New Yorkers—cookbook authors and a TV host among them. For more obsessively sourced recommendations, including the best running stores, language classes, and cobblers, visit curbed.com.

The Yayoi Kusama Opening • We stopped by the artist’s new exhibit at David Zwirner gallery.

Jubilant UES Traditionalism • Elizabeth Pyne Singer carries on a three-generation interior-design legacy in her Carnegie Hill home.

Steal My Noguchi • Fourteen Akari lamps of all shapes and sizes as seen glowing in their passionate owners’ homes.

Titan Casual • Taking in the taleggio foam and sandalwood-scented restrooms of Centurion New York, Manhattan’s most exclusive new clubhouse.

A Table … Tonight • Great new restaurants where you can get an easy two-top without having to set a Resy notification first.

Try the Pastrami • Moe’s is an unlikely delicatessen destination.

CRITICS • Kathryn VanArendonk on the finale of Succession … Angelica Jade Bastién on The Little Mermaid … Jackson McHenry on Monsoon Wedding.

To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read. JUNE 7–21

GAMES

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