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Simon van Zuylen-Wood

Features Writer, New York Magazine

Simon van Zuylen-Wood is a features writer at New York, covering politics, ideas, business, and culture, both in New York City and nationally.

  1. encounter
    Salman Rushdie Parties AgainA defiant celebration of Knife caps a physical (and reputational) comeback.
  2. early and often
    Houston Dash v NJ/NY Gotham FC
    What Explains Tammy Murphy’s Curiously Early Exit?How a once-inevitable candidate crumbled in New Jersey.
  3. early and often
    The Governor’s Wife Has Decided to Be a SenatorThe First Lady of New Jersey is leveraging her husband’s power to lock up the Democratic nomination for Senate. She appears unstoppable.
  4. infinite jets
    Why Are We Still Watching the Jets in Week 15?Two miserable fans return to commiserate about a lost season.
  5. torn up and apart
    92NY Splits With the Cultural EliteA venerable institution digs in.
  6. infinite jets
    Why Are We Still Watching the Jets?Two miserable fans recap week two and try to process their grief.
  7. fertility
    The Global Sperm Count Decline Has Created Big BusinessThe tantalizing business opportunities and disorienting politics of the worldwide decline in man’s most precious bodily fluid.
  8. games
    What Was Kyrie Irving Thinking?He arrived in Brooklyn a bona fide weirdo. He left for Dallas on even stranger terms.
  9. reasons to love new york
    The Story of the Bishop Robbed During His Church ServiceIt’s so much wilder than the headlines.
  10. sbf: the virtue was the con
    Is Effective Altruism Now Defective?Commiserating with the do-gooders SBF made look bad.
  11. street fights
    Plywood GourmetHow thousands of restaurants speedily, messily, and probably permanently took over the street.
  12. profile
    The Tragedy of Jayquan McKenleyHe wanted to be a drill star. He became a symbol in a culture war instead.
  13. encounter
    Platforming a Platformer of the DeplatformedThe premiere of Alex Lee Moyer’s new Alex Jones documentary is a blockbuster anti-Establishment crossover event.
  14. the money game
    The High Priest of Cryptopia Regrets NothingIan Freeman could have been a bitcoin billionaire. Instead, he could go to prison for the rest of his life.
  15. politics
    QAnon Goes to WashingtonTwenty-four followers of the grotesque conspiracy theory are running for Congress in November. Where does this end?
  16. nycha
    We Have No Idea How Many Public Housing Tenants — or Workers — Have Coronavirus“Staff is out there with nothing to help them fight against this virus.”
  17. coronavirus
    The Housing Authority Is Not Ready For CoronavirusSeniors at the largest public housing development in the U.S. aren’t getting answers on coronavirus.
  18. vision 2020
    How Low Will Democrats Go? Probably Not Low Enough.In a world of fake news and dank memes, this means they’re no longer very good at the internet.
  19. politics
    When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?It’s AOC’s calling card, Trump’s latest rhetorical bludgeon, and a new way to date in Brooklyn.
  20. supreme court
    How Neil Gorsuch Became the Second-Most-Polarizing Man in WashingtonSo much for the hope that he might be a mild-mannered, semi-moderate justice.
  21. media
    Does Glenn Greenwald Know More Than Robert Mueller?The journalist’s war on the Russia investigation.
  22. deep state
    The Man Who Made Liberals Newly Enamored of the Deep StateIn their desire to see Trump banished, they’ve embraced some unusual bedfellows, like Benjamin Wittes.
  23. the new far right
    Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far RightThe extremely reactionary, burn-it-down-radical, newfangled far right.
  24. encounter
    The Uber Lobbyist Who Wants to Take Down Bill de BlasioBradley Task may be the mayor’s most avid enemy.