Features

Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games

Life is rigged, play is meritocratic. By Frank Guan

As American As Refusing to Stand for the National Anthem

Sports may never be a politics-free zone again. By Reeves Wiedeman

Intelligencer

Talk

How Trump’s surrogates are revolutionizing the language of lying.

92 Minutes With Glenn Close

Back on Broadway for a second turn in Sunset Boulevard.

Brand Names

Melania and Ivanka Trump have shed their sex-sells pasts. So now what are they hawking?

The Cut

American Fashion Confronts America

With the most-anticipated collection of Fashion Week leading the way. By Cathy Horyn

Strategist

Best Bets

Australian denim in Soho, a holistic-care pharmacy in Williamsburg, and a women’s-only salon in Bay Ridge.

Look Book

The marionette collector whose life consists of his toy dog, golf, and cigars.

Properties

Life in Trump buildings: the protesters, the new frisson, and the extremely clean floors.

The Restaurant Review

At White Gold, April Bloomfield’s butcher-shop-restaurant, it’s all about the meat.

The Dish

Untitled’s lettuce wrap is a fish taco so good it doesn't need a tortilla.

Where (and What) You’ll Be Eating Next

13 promising restaurants opening before spring.

Culture

Glass Ceiling

Sally Field on acting as a form of resistance.

The Menagerie Dream Team

Of the seven previous Broadway productions of The Glass Menagerie, which foursome would be the all-time greatest?

Later, Haters

The women of Girls talk diversity, backlash, and the only character to have matured.

In the Room

Inside the Dirty Projectors’ Joni Mitchell–inspired studio.

The Romantic Comedy Is Not Dead

It’s just not the same as you remember.

The 34 Best Romantic Comedies of the Past Decade

Including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Her, and Obvious Child.

Why A-List Actresses Don’t Make Romantic Comedies Anymore

Stars like Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan made their careers in rom-coms. Why have their successors stayed away?

The Movie Review

Jordan Peele’s Get Out is the satirical horror movie we’ve been waiting for.

The Book Review

J.M. Coetzee’s starkly beautiful new novel is born of his apathy.

The TV Review

Legion is a decadently imaginative trip.

To Do: February 22–March 8, 2017

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

Departments

Comments: Week of February 20, 2017

Readers sound off on Trumpism, the new editor of Vogue Arabia, and more.

The Approval Matrix: Week of February 20, 2017

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.