New York Magazine

The Cut’s solo “Spring Fashion” print issue features Bad Bunny, Doechii, Rosé, conversation-provoking features, unique fashion and beauty coverage, and more.

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Free Country: Sam Adler-Bell • The Politics of Courage The young and vulnerable are risking their futures. Why aren’t their elders?

Neighborhood News: When Feeding Is Also Puppeteering • The Bronx Zoo’s baby king vulture gets its lunch from a bird on the hand.

Lucien Smith • He was an up-and-coming art star a decade ago—until he quit his galleries. Now he’s ready for his next act.

HER TOWN • The West Village Girl has transformed the neighborhood to precisely reflect her tastes—and is broadcasting it to the rest of the world.

All By Himself • John Fetterman insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.

Who Wouldn’t Cheat? • In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

Barry & Diane • The truth about us, after all these years.

A Superior Homemade Scoop

Best Bets

Rashid Johnson’s Opening Night • Nearly a thousand attended “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” the artist’s solo exhibition at the Guggenheim.

Kenny’s Uptown World • The packed townhouse of a downtown art-scene refugee.

Island Hopping • Kabawa is a new kind of restaurant for Momofuku, one devoted to the cuisines of the Caribbean.

Stacked Pancakes • The city’s newest status flapjacks are super-fluffy, covered in compote, and finished with miso ice cream or salted egg yolks.

It Broke Her, Too • What Kaitlyn Dever does in The Last of Us is devastating. It’s nothing compared to what was happening behind the scenes.

The Ghost in the Algorithm • Two critics—one AI-skeptical, the other AI-curious—discuss the merits of art made by machines.

The Romance of Being Unreadable • In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.

How the Black Portraiture Boom Went Bust • The racial reckoning of 2020 sent prices soaring. Now, no one’s buying.

CRITICS • Nicholas Quah on Andor, season two … Alison Willmore on Havoc … Sara Holdren on Floyd Collins.

To DO • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

IRL LOL • See these stars of your various screens go beyond aspect ratio and do what could never be televised: alt-comedy.

Weather (or Not)

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