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December 26, 2016 Issue
Cover Story
The Gun Exchange
Can 16 strangers — some who say guns saved their lives, others who lost their children to bullets — find any sort of common ground?
By Lisa Miller
On the Cover:
Todd Underwood and Carolyn Tuft. Photograph by Marco Grob for New York Magazine.
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Features
Who Will Do What Harry Reid Did Now That Harry Reid Is Gone?
The Democrats need a fighter in the Senate more than ever, just as their wiliest is departing. By Jason Zengerle
The Year in Memes
A head that looked like a butt, lots of frogs, and one infamous gorilla: 2016’s viral internet in six short pages. By Madison Malone Kircher, Brian Feldman, and Max Read
Intelligencer
The National Interest
Michael Flynn’s appointment contains the sum of all fears of a Trumpian government.
82 Minutes With Sally Quinn
Plotting a Trump dinner party with Washington’s most famous hostess.
Select All
Has Silicon Valley already created a Muslim registry?
One Couple, Two Pregnancies, One Year Later
A year ago, Kate Elazegui and Emily Kehe, a married couple, gave birth to boys three days apart. Our story was the fourth-most-read one we published last year. So: How’s the family doing?
The Cut
The Beauty Queen of QVC
Jamie Kern Lima made a fortune on makeup by revealing her real skin.
Strategist
Best Bets
Glossier opens its first store, colorful champagne glasses, and more.
Look Book
The NYU student who really, really loves toast.
Where to Eat 2017
Adam Platt’s annual restaurant survey with all sorts of soothing intelligence and advice, such as where to find the best new pasta joints in Brooklyn; what to order at the rash of glamorous bistros around town, like Le Coucou; and the ideal place to muffle your anxieties with a quick triple-patty burger or stout pork sandwich, as we turn the page on another dining year.
The Absolute Best New Restaurants
Including Daniel Rose and Stephen Starr’s elaborate haute-bistro collaboration and a whole new roster from the Obamas’ favorite pasta chef.
8 Dining Trends We’re Tired Of
Ticketed restaurant reservations, absurdist cocktail names, chef-backstory narratives, and more.
Culture
Future Shock
Director Alfonso Cuarón revisits Children of Men, his overlooked 2006 masterpiece, which might be the most relevant film of 2016.
One (More) Day at a Time
Norman Lear and Gloria Calderon Kellet bring back a '70s sitcom staple, recast for the 21st century.
Revenge of the Trees
Imagining a wooden skyline.
Who Didn't Lose 2016?
Our annual, extremely scientific bracket to determine who lost the least this year.
The Movie Review
Denzel Washington’s Fences gets stuck between stage and screen.
The Movie Review
Paterson evokes the inner world of the artist but flirts with twee.
The Art Review
Eric Fischl’s great new work of American art can only be seen on Facebook — and here.
The Theater Review
A pair of reinvented Othellos.
To Do: December 28–January 11, 2016
Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of December 26, 2016
Readers sound off on our reasons to love New York City, immigrant New Yorkers, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of December 26, 2016
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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