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Barry Blitt’s “The Race for Office”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Is the U.S.—long thought to be the land of new beginnings—in danger of becoming a sclerotic gerontocracy? “In a declining society, the images of an aging leadership can come to embody…

Goodbye, Hunk of Home

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Goings On

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Molly FischerStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. September, that…

Something Unusual Is Happening at Foxface Natural

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. New York is a phenomenal restaurant city, but…

Diana Ejaita’s “Lines of Beauty”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The cover of this year’s Fall Style & Design issue showcases the work of Diana Ejaita, an artist who has herself dabbled in the world of fashion. When we published her…

John Waters Is Ready for His Hollywood Closeup

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The day after John Waters’s mother attended the opening of his 1969 film, “Mondo Trasho,” she called him in hysterics, saying, “You are going to end up in a mental institution,…

A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In order to re member yourself and your mother, you examine the paper fragments of your past. Sometime before the fall of 1990, you visit your mother in what you remember…

A YouTube View of Deion Sanders

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past Saturday, the revamped, unranked University of Colorado football team coached by Deion Sanders shocked the sports world by upsetting, on the road and in hundred-degree-plus heat, last year’s national…

A Departure from Reality

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In order to re member yourself and your mother, you examine the paper fragments of your past. Sometime before the fall of 1990, you visit your mother in what you remember…