Innholdsfortegnelse for August 24, 2015 i New York Magazine

1 "Should she win the U.S. Open next month," wrote Kerry Howley in her cover story on Serena Williams, "she will have swept all four grand slams in a calendar year, cementing her reputation as the greatest women's player of all time and making her a serious contender for the greatest athlete of her generation" (“The Unretiring Serena Williams,” August 10–24). Some readers used the article as a launchpad for their own assessment of Williams's storied career, arguing that the tennis star is chronically underestimated by the media and sports fans. "Like many people who are the best at something," wrote commenter sraw, "Serena doesn't get enough credit because she makes it look easy." Writing for the website Mic, Jamilah King argued that the photographs accompanying Howley's story were a…

ON A MONDAY IN MID- August, 47-year-old Boris Becker is hobbling across the lobby of the Marriott in Mason, Ohio, where the pro-tennis caravan has pitched its tent for the last hard-court tune-up before the U.S. Open. If his shockingly reduced gait (owing to two hip replacements and a steel plate in his right ankle) is the cost of hurling his 215 pounds at passing shots like a goaltender, then it seems too high. But how do you set a fair price on seizing tennis immortality by winning Wimbledon at 17? Becker has been cooling his heels in Ohio for two days, waiting for Novak Djokovic, whom he coaches, to arrive from Montreal, but there's no hint of impatience; in fact, after nearly two decades of wandering in the wilderness,…

SAMUEL L. JACKSON REMEMBERS the exact moment he met Quentin Tarantino, because, well, it's hard to forget the motherfucker who screwed up your audition for Reservoir Dogs. That was 24 years ago, and Jackson still calls Tarantino a motherfucker, though now "it's the endearing motherfucker, not the curse motherfucker," he says, as in their common greeting, "What the fuck, motherfucker!" Jackson tells the tale of their first encounter with the kind of affectionate shit-talking born of deep friendship; they've just finished their sixth movie together (The Hateful Eight, out December 25). It was 1991, the year Jackson, a theater veteran just getting into movies, won Best Supporting Actor at Cannes for Jungle Fever. He'd shown up to casting for this unknown screenwriter's first feature having memorized a scene he thought…

LOVE MAY NOT be the first word that comes to mind when you hear the name Jonathan Franzen, but it's a word that's become more and more important to him over the years. "You have to love before you can be relentless." That, whatever it means, is the last of Franzen's rules for writing fiction, published in the Guardian in 2010. In 2011, Franzen told the graduating seniors of Kenyon College that "trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships." His point was that it's better to love, say, a spouse or birds than to spend too much time on Facebook. Franzen has also lamented "the near-perfect absence" in the fiction of his late friend David Foster Wallace "of ordinary love." The paradox was that Wallace's readers felt…

CHEFS HAVE a habit of saying, as if programmed during media training, that they want to have fun cooking and cook the kind of food they like to eat . In the case of Missy Robbins, who has joined forces with the Smile’s Matt Kliegman to open Lilia this fall, we’re inclined to believe her. Robbins, you see, has recently come off an extended fancy-restaurant jag—first at Spiaggia in Chicago, then running both locations of A Voce. She took a year to carefully plot her next steps, none of which initially resembled the casual Italian joint she’s poised to open in a former auto-body garage two blocks from McCarren Park in Williamsburg. Robbins might be the solitary New York chef immune to Brooklyn’s…

Residences: Eight floors of long-term-stay apartments (one-month minimum; pricing TBD), furnished by Domenico Vacca. Hair salon: Six chairs for women’s haircuts (from $120), blow-dries ($50), and highlights ($180). Live music: Italian singers like Umberto Smaila play one week per month. Open bar: A $20,000 yearly membership fee includes light food and an open bar for you and three guests. Outdoor space: A 2,000-square-foot terrace with a retractable roof and fire pit; 4,000-square-foot rooftop. Home: Domenico Vacca’s first tableware collection. Men’s handmade shirts: 300 varieties ($360). VIP shopping: A bespoke shopping experience with a Domenico Vacca specialist. Barber: Three chairs for men’s shaves ($25) and cuts ($30). Men’s outerwear: Gray-and-blue sport jackets ($2,600); double-breasted suits ($2,900). Video: Two-story-tall video screens playing the most recent fashion shows. Handbags: Two-story-tall wood-paneled shelves displaying…

Photography: The Family Acid, by Roger Steffens ($65). Comics: Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera, by Richard Kraft ($32). Novels: The Book Lovers Publication: Artist Novels, edited by David Maroto and Joanna Zielinska ($34). Architecture: Architecture/ Astrology, by Jessica Russell, Mieko Meguro, and Dan Graham ($40). VHS: ESP TV boxed set ($250). Cassettes and LPs: A Sheep on the Bus, Vol. 3 ($6). Feminism and Gender: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, by the Heresies Collective ($15). Posters: “A Kind in Glass,” by Eve Fowler ($250). Gallery: Two smaller exhibition rooms can convert into one big space depending on the show. Zines: Phantomia IV, by Beni Bischof ($15). Out-of-print: Inserts: advertising supplements to the Sunday New York Times, by Group…

ABC HOME Co-create x Catellani & Smith Cosmos Star LED light, $4,000. 888 Broadway. Paulette Cole, CEO and creative director: "The colors are inspired by chakras—the yellow light can spark the energy of intention; the blue can deepen a sense of intuition." CITE Karim Rashid hookah for Gaia & Gino, $2,025. 32 Greene St. Travis Decker, sales director: "The world's most high-end hookah, designed by renowned Arab designer Karim Rashid." MCNALLY JACKSON, GOODS FOR THE STUDY Stálogy translucent sticky notes, $7. 234 Mulberry St. Sandeep Salter, partner and director: "Put these Japanese sticky notes on top of something and annotate a text that's underneath. They're really useful." THE LINE Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. cutting board, $175. 76 Greene St. Vanessa Traina Snow, executive creative director: "There's a fabulously modern…

M.A.C Studio 825 Lexington Ave.; soft-opened in July, grand opening in September SETUP Six makeover chairs in the front room have attached iPads featuring looks like "neutral face with winged liner and bold bright lips"; two back rooms are for parties and VIP clients. SERVICES Full makeovers, including a face chart to re-create the look at home ($60); tattoo cover-ups ($10); and contouring and smoky-eye lessons ($30). PRODUCTS All of M.A.C’s 1,200 products, including new additions like Cremesheen Pearl lipsticks ($17) and cult favorites like Ruby Woo lipstick ($17) and Extreme Dimension Lash ($22). Joli Beauty Bar 44 E. 1st St.; September SETUP Six chairs in a 400-square-foot room decorated with subway tiles reminiscent of Paris Métro stations, one private-party room, and a changing area with storage lockers. SERVICES Express…

AND THE OSCAR for Actor Most Likely to Be Detained by Airport Security goes to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays two real-life anarchist-heroes this fall: In Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, which opens the New York Film Festival on September 26, he stars as Philippe Petit, the French daredevil who walked a wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. And in Oliver Stone's Snowden, out on December 25, Gordon-Levitt will play the exiled NSA whistle-blower. If all that wasn't enough to get him on a watch list, he'll also reteam with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who produced last year's The Interview, for The Night Before, about three best friends (Rogen, Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie) who spend a wild Christmas Eve in New York. The thing that…

IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY FALL SEASON, a new network star (who's not really that new) is born. This September, Wesley Snipes is a prime breakout contender for his role as the enigmatic maybe-villain maybe-not Mr. Johnson—the representative of a shadowy consortium that gambles on a former intelligence officer's ability to prevent crimes—in NBC's action-drama The Player, premiering September 24. The series represents Snipes's highest-profile gig since finishing off a two-year stint in prison for failing to file income-tax returns, and he's eager to be back in the game—for a variety of reasons. You’ve been away for a while. Were you at all hesitant to jump right into series television? Somewhat. With film, I've been able to keep a certain amount of privacy. Film stars still have a little mystery to…

SEPT 9/4 Dam-Funk, Invite the Light The 21st-century champion of G-funk convenes a wide spectrum of Los Angeles pop royalty on this record, with guest turns from Snoop Dogg, Flea, and Ariel Pink. Lou Barlow, Brace the Wave The Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh co-founder announced this solo album only in July, after recording its nine tracks in six days. Per a YouTube trailer, it was made "without drums, without regrets." Public Image Ltd, What the World Needs Now These days, John Lydon (né Rotten) happily trades on a cartoon version of his image to make some scratch in TV commercials; that doesn't mean he's lost his taste for cartoonishly abrasive punk, screaming, "I want the trouble!" on the first single from his post–Sex Pistols…

JANET JACKSON, UNBREAKABLE DATE TBA From Tinashe to FKA Twigs, the Queen of Pop’s influence is all over R&B right now—and her first album in seven years will show the upstarts how it’s done. LANA DEL REY, HONEYMOON 9/18 The high priestess of Americana returns with her third album, which she’s described as “surrealist” and inspired by “late-night Miles Davis drives.” DISCLOSURE, CARACAL 9/25 The neo-house producers’ second album is even more star-studded than their first, featuring vocals from Lorde and the Weeknd, and a reunion with their “Latch” pal Sam Smith. FRANK OCEAN, BOYS DON’T CRY DATE TBA The low-key crooner’s mysterious follow-up to his masterful Channel Orange will come with its very…

SEPT 9/2 Charles Swedlund Through 10/3, Higher Pictures The legendary octogenarian photographer trained with masters of abstraction Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. 9/9 “Katherine Bernhardt: Pablo & Efrain” Through, 10/24, Venus Over Manhattan See critic's picks (page 128). 9/10 “Dana Schutz: Fight in an Elevator” Through 10/24, Petzel Gallery See critic's picks. Mike Kelley Through 10/24, Hauser & Wirth Kelley's Kandors—late works that borrow their name from the capital of Superman's home planet and take shape as crystalline cast-resin figures—get a multi-room show. Roy Lichtenstein Through 10/17, Gagosian West 24th St. Featuring a Pop-art replica of his early-'80s Guernica-inflected Greene Street mural. 9/11 “For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979” Through 1/10, Grey Art Gallery and Japan Society Gallery Chock-full of never–beforeseen–in–New York photographs…

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Avant avant-gardist Ivo van Hove directing Arthur Miller on Broadway sounds like a spectacular crash of sensibilities. ECLIPSED The Public brings Danai Gurira’s play about collateral damage in the Liberian Civil War (i.e., women) to New York, along with Lupita Nyong’o. FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE The most compelling new musicals this fall are Off Broadway, especially Michael John LaChiusa’s follow-up to First Lady Suite, at the Public Theater. HIR Gender magician Taylor Mac takes off his meta hat for a (somewhat) straight play, at Playwrights Horizons. THE HUMANS Early-mid-(or late-early-) career playwrights are often the most exciting, so I can’t wait for Stephen Karam’s new drama, from the Roundabout.…

DAVID BOWIE Nearly 40 years after starring in a film version of The Man Who Fell to Earth, Bowie has written, with help from Once book writer Enda Walsh, songs for Lazarus, a new take on the sci-fi yarn. According to director Ivo van Hove, the tunes “sound as if you have heard them forever—like classics.” BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG The Green Day leader wrote the music for These Paper Bullets!— an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing—which follows a young band from Liverpool as they frantically record an album in a week’s time. Given the plot, expect Armstrong’s compositions to sound much more like Meet the Beatles!–era Fabs than his own band’s far snottier classic Dookie. THOM YORKE The Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Harold Pinter’s Old Times will boast…

MARY GAITSKILL’S first collection of short stories, 1988's Bad Behavior, cemented a reputation for sexy depravity. November's The Mare, though, has a premise that's practically, and deceptively, book-club-ready: A childless, rural couple hosts a Fresh Air Fund girl from Brooklyn, and horseback riding brings them all together. But in classic Gaitskill fashion, alienation, mutual misunderstanding, and pain ensue. On paper, The Mare feels unexpected for you. Do you think readers will be surprised? I'm not honestly sure how people will see it. When I was writing it, I was a little bit worried that it might be a little too heartwarming, but a friend of mine read it and she said, "This is the most depressing thing I've ever read." How much did you draw on…

SEPT 9/11 “Arvo Pärt at Eighty” The Metropolitan Museum The New Juilliard Ensemble will perform his shimmeringly ethereal works, and City Ballet dancers will perform Christopher Wheeldon's Liturgy, set to Pärt's Fratres. 9/14 Tree of Codes Through 9/21, Park Avenue Armory How's this for brand extension: Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Tree of Codes inspires a dance, with choreography by Wayne McGregor for his own dancers and an original score by Jamie xx, along with an installation by Olafur Eliasson. 9/17 Run Time Error Miller Theatre at Columbia University See critic's picks (at right). 9/18 New York Philharmonic Through 9/19 and 9/21, Avery Fisher Hall The Phil plays two movie scores, accompanied by screenings: Film composer David Newman (Hoffa, Matilda, etc.) conducts Leonard Bernstein's music for On the Waterfront, then Justin…

GALA OPENING OF HAMILTON RICHARD RODGERS THEATRE AND CHELSEA PIER 60. AUGUST 6. Would you rather take driving lessons from a cabbie or an Uber driver? “Uber. The Uber guys are kind of younger, more like your brother. Taxi drivers scare me.” “Taxi driver. Much more colorful. You’re going to get some good stories, some great accents out of it.” “A London cabbie. They know the streets. Here, I have to draw maps.” PREMIERE OF LEARNING TO DRIVE, HOSTED BY THE PEGGY SIEGAL COMPANY THE PARIS THEATRE AND SOUTHGATE. AUGUST 17. TANGENT “The cell-phone camera democratizing what happens on a street corner is a revolution. Police have to figure out how not to overpolice orderly communities as they underpolice minority communities with problems which…

THIS INTERVIEW was condensed and edited from two conversations, the first conducted July 29 and the second August 7. We’re five months from the release of The Hateful Eight on December 25. How close to finishing are you? We've got a little bit more than an hour finished right now. I just got back from seeing an hour of the movie cut together. Are you happy with it? I'm not committing suicide yet. It is what it is. We're rushing and trying to get to the end. Then you go through it and try to make it even better. But first, you just get to the end. Every movie I've ever done, there has always been some date we were trying to meet, whether it was…

THE ISSUE of succession is a difficult matter not just for family-run businesses but for the families that run them. Take the Murdochs, for instance. Or the Binghams, the Kentucky newspaper clan that imploded in the 1980s. Historically speaking, transitions in the Sulzberger family, which has run the New York Times for 119 years, have not gone all that smoothly. During the paper's early days, patriarch Adolph Ochs agonized over which heir should follow him: his nephew Julius Ochs Adler or his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. (His daughter, Iphigene, was never considered.) The competition took a toll on all involved. In 1932, Sulzberger suffered a stress-induced heart attack, which crippled his left hand; a year later, Adler had a nervous breakdown and spent six weeks in a mental institution. Ochs…

Dan Kluger has yet to settle on a name for his first solo project, slated to open early this winter on a stretch of 8th Street that's been attempting to become a high-low food-and-drink destination (see Neta, Stumptown Coffee, Sticky's Finger Joint). On other points, though, he's more decided: "It is essentially my ABC," he says, referring to ABC Kitchen, the Jean-Georges Vongerichten operation where Kluger made his name as executive chef, garnering a James Beard award for Best New Restaurant and a Best Chef NYC nomination in the process. Like that hot spot, Kluger's new kitchen will focus on vegetable-forward, protein-light local and seasonal fare. But, freed from his self-imposed 100-mile-sourcing radius at ABC, Kluger's now willing to stretch the boundaries of local in the winter months to Florida…

STORE: The Zazen Bear’s shape, according to the company, represents peace and tranquility and acts as a reminder to “stop, breathe deeply, and embrace the inner self.” Apparently, hugging a Zazen Bear plush cushion ($50) helps create a feeling of calm; pink sapphire necklaces ($475) are meant to evoke a “feminine sense of eternal peace of mind.” GALLERY: A live-plant wall spans the store’s two floors, and the downstairs space displays Japanese artist Seiho’s Zen paintings and calligraphy ( from $14,000). WELLNESS: The word zazen translates to “sitting in the lotus position,” so the downstairs gallery will double as a yoga and meditation studio, with Zen-related classes by guest speakers.…

"I asked the Dutch couple Scholten & Baijings to design these tea towels ($18) for us. All of the furniture they sell is very expensive, but my idea was to create an object that anyone could buy." "This wooden hand (from $18) is usually sold in art-supply stores for people to learn how to draw hands. We display it as a decoration piece. It's one of our most popular products." "People buy these spine binders ($15) from us because of the colors. They want everyday objects that are more beautiful to look at. We've sold them to everyone from 7-year-old girls to architects." "This tree-trunk vase (from $45) by Richard Woods is my favorite product from the Wrong for Hay collection, because it looks a bit odd. The concept was…

What’s your search process? I open Instagram in the morning and fall down the rabbit hole. Say I'm following NYX Cosmetics, and they post a picture of a girl wearing incredible lipstick. If the caption says, "Thanks to so-and-so …," I'll click on that person. Then I start looking through their posts and find a picture of a lipstick that's even better than the one they posted of NYX. I click on that one and see who liked it and just keep going. You click through ten different people and 20 different comments until you're like, What is this brand? I’ve never even heard of them! Safe to say you’ll be carrying many Kardashianendorsed products? Yeah. One example is this self-tanner Cocoa Brown ($14), out of Ireland. I was already…

AUG. Lowe’s The home-improvement chain debuts in Manhattan with two smaller-scale (but still 30,000-square-foot) stores on the Upper West Side and in Chelsea. In addition to the appliances and storage products, there are throw pillows, vases, and other décor curated by New York interior designer Nicole Gibbons. Apartment-friendly vignettes include one kitchen setup that squeezes a dishwasher, stove, and cooktop within an eight-foot countertop. 2008 Broadway and 635–641 Sixth Ave. SEPT. Tory Sport Ahead of a stand-alone storefront expected in March, this pop-up version inside Tory Burch's original boutique is a Royal Tenenbaums take on athleisure, with navy-and-red Lycra leggings ($125) and tennis sweaters made in breathable cotton ($195). 257 Elizabeth St. Givenchy Following a seven-year absence, the brand helmed by Riccardo Tisci returns to New York with a zebra-print-accented,…

EXPERIMENTER Peter Sarsgaard as Stanley Milgram, the Yale researcher who ordered test subjects to deliver shocks to a stranger, their semi-blind obedience suggesting the worst in human nature—as depicted by indie stalwart Michael Almereyda ( Hamlet ). OUR BRAND IS CRISIS David Gordon Green directs a fictionalized version of one of the most penetrating docs of the aughts, Rachel Boynton’s tragicomedy of a South American election warped by newfangled Yankee image manipulation. BROOKLYN Saoirse Ronan as an Irish immigrant in what’s rumored to be an emotionally transporting portrait of a time and place—the Brooklyn of the ’50s. SNOWDEN Visionary-thug-maverick-iconoclast Oliver Stone will likely make up his own rules in telling the story of Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the traitor/savior who showed us the inner workings of our modern surveillance state.…

PAWN SACRIFICE (Bobby Fischer) In 2008, the famous chess master succumbed to kidney failure in Reykjavík, Iceland. STEVE JOBS (Steve Jobs) The Apple founder battled pancreatic cancer for years before dying in 2011. THE DANISH GIRL (Lili Elbe) Born a man, Elbe was a successful painter who underwent one of the earliest sex-reassignment surgeries in 1930. At 48, she died when her body rejected a transplanted uterus. TRUMBO (Dalton Trumbo) Two of Trumbo’s pseudonymous screenplays won Oscars while he was blacklisted. The writer outlived the anti-Communist hysteria, though, dying of a heart attack in 1976. I SAW THE LIGHT (Hank Williams) At only 29, the country-music legend died of a heart attack in the backseat of a powder-blue Cadillac. LEGEND (Ronnie and Reggie Kray) The British gangsters and twin brothers…

THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER (FX) From Kurt Sutter, the creator of Sons of Anarchy, comes this story of a warrior (Lee Jones) who swears off killing only to pick up a sword again when he’s forced to become an executioner. Sutter’s muse Katey Sagal co-stars as Annora of the Elders. To no one’s surprise, the show is reputed to be astoundingly violent. BEST TIME EVER WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS (NBC) Skits, pranks, musical numbers, all hosted by Harris. And it’s live. There’s no way this weekly show can fail to be awesome. DR. KEN (ABC) Ken Jeong, the scene stealer from Community, stars as a House-like doctor. That is, an excellent pathologist with no social skills. THE MUPPETS (ABC) The late Jim Henson’s beloved troupe of felt…

You’re the Worst 9/9 (FXX) Jimmy and Gretchen decide to cohabitate; Paul wants to divorce Lindsay; Becca and Vernon are having a baby. Gotham 9/21 (Fox) Bruce Wayne stumbles upon a secret “cave” below Wayne Manor. Fresh Off the Boat 9/22 (Fox) With the help of Louis and Eddie, Jessica realizes that the Huang family’s assimilation isn’t such a bad thing. Empire 9/23 (Fox) Lucious is in jail, Jamal is in charge, and the rest of the Lyon pride have set their sights on his throne. Nashville 9/23 (ABC) Flatline! Someone’s dead, but is it Deacon or his crabby sister Beverly? How to Get Away With Murder 9/24 (ABC) Rebecca is dead in Annalise’s basement, and no one knows who did it. Oh, and…

FOR ABOUT a month in 2011, the then-little-known Montreal-based producer-singer Claire Boucher, a.k.a. Grimes, barely left her apartment. She blacked out the windows and spent a string of sleepless (and allegedly Adderall-fueled) nights recording music alone on the standard-issue Apple software GarageBand—making propulsive beats, crafting hypnotic keyboard loops, and layering her airy falsetto into dense harmonies. As she's described it since, she entered a kind of self-imposed fugue state. "[After nine days] you have no stimulation," she told The Guardian, "so your subconscious starts filling in the blanks … I started to feel like I was channeling spirits." The resulting album was pretty, spooky, personal, and a little hallucinatory. Fittingly, she called it Visions. Despite its unassuming origins, Visions became a sensation, and the album's creation story has turned into…

UNLIKE MANY SOLO efforts from longtime members of a band, Keith Richards's upcoming Crosseyed Heart—his first non–Rolling Stones album in 23 years—wasn't intended as a platform for the elegantly grizzled guitarist to do much experimenting. "The most unique thing about it," Richards, 71, says wryly, "is that there was no deadline for me to make it." On the cover of your first solo album, 1988’s Talk Is Cheap, you’re smoking a cigarette and looking defiant. The same goes for 1992’s Main Offender. On the cover of Crosseyed Heart, there’s no cigarette and you’re smiling. What gives? I didn't quit smoking, mate. I blame the photographers for those other ones. I'd go through a pack just for them to…

“PICASSO SCULPTURE” Picasso was a killer sculptor too—some say a better one than he was a painter. Fiendishly clear but cosmically complex. “KONGO: POWER AND MAJESTY” See where Picasso and much of the 20th century got their ideas about space, scale, and materials. “KATHERINE BERNHARDT: PABLO & EFRAIN” Sensual color and compositional jam-ups of everyday objects, all rendered with the magical eye of a Berber rug. “DANA SCHUTZ: FIGHT IN AN ELEVATOR” Schutz’s colorful abstracted figural pictorial structure does with space and composition what Brice Marden does with his looping lines. QUEER THOUGHTS If the recently opened Tribeca iteration of this gallery is as independent as its Chicago predecessor, our scene just got better, fast.…

“I think people quite often do sort of think adapting a novel into a stage play is somehow just like doing an editing job. They have no idea of the completely fresh and new approach you have to take to the story, and how much of yourself you have to put into an adaptation. With adaptations, you don’t want to let people down who’ve loved the novel. I certainly feel a great responsibility to make sure I render it up in a way the author would feel proud to be connected with. It’d be awful if I thought they were looking down and thinking, This is atrocious, what has she done?”…

SEPT 9/1 Purity: A Novel By Jonathan Franzen FSG A sprawling saga that follows a young woman named Pip—given name Purity—dealing with student debt and an absentee mom until an internship at the secretive Sunlight Project in South America starts to make things interesting. (See Franzen profile, page 50) The Story of the Lost Child By Elena Ferrante Europa Editions See critic's picks, page 145) The Girl in the Spider’s Web By David Lagercrantz Knopf After series creator Steig Larsson died suddenly of a heart attack, his publisher turned to Lagercrantz to continue his bestselling "Millennium" saga, and this is the result. Here fans will find Lisbeth and Mikael embroiled in a WikiLeaks-esque web of spies and lies. 9/8 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights By Salman Rushdie Penguin…

THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD By Elena Ferrante The finale of the Neapolitan tetralogy follows Lila and Elena into the dangerous zone of middle age and beyond. THE MARE By Mary Gaitskill Gaitskill’s first novel in ten years is about a poor city girl who goes to the country—but don’t expect anything heartwarming. SUBMISSION By Michel Houellebecq The Charlie Hebdo attack occurred on the day this novel of France under a Muslim president was first published, and the author took pains to say he hadn’t written an Islamophobic book. Judge for yourself. I CAN GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE By Gary Indiana Indiana’s memoir returns to his adventures as a boy in New Hampshire, a hippie in San Francisco, and a punk in L.A. BEAUTY IS A WOUND By…

RUN TIME ERROR I’m a sucker for the unpredictable, and the Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen’s project of turning a concert hall into a giant music-and-video gizmo seems irresistibly risky. WINTERREISE FESTIVAL Composer and impresario Paola Prestini has crammed the inaugural season of her Williamsburg venue National Sawdust with so many concerts that it makes a new-music aficionado want to move in. PAUL LEWIS Pianist Lewis has matured into excellence by playing Beethoven and Schubert more deeply. This fall, he delivers three versions of his favorite composers: chamber (with Mark Padmore), orchestral (with the Boston Symphony Orchestra), and solo. NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG, “FROM RUSSIA TO RIVERSIDE DRIVE: RACHMANINOFF AND FRIENDS” Rachmaninoff is best known for keyboard-pummeling piano music, but in his old-country songs he tapped a Russian…

Relax and Indulge on the High Seas CELEBRITY CRUISES 800-CELEBRITY celebritycruises.com MAYBE IT’S THE fact that you’re greeted by name on board; or perhaps it’s when you mention a favorite dessert and it appears after dinner; or it might occur to you as you’re cooling off with chilled towels after a shore excursion—whenever it strikes you, you simply know something is different aboard Celebrity. With one staff member for every two guests, Celebrity’s personal service anticipates your every need, ensuring that you’ll feel restored and relaxed whether in your stateroom, out by the pool, or in the Canyon Ranch SpaClub® . Anywhere and at all times, Celebrity’s onboard family makes the extra effort to guarantee that every aspect of your cruise turns out just the way you want. This fall,…

ADOLPH SIMON OCHS b. 1858, d. 1935 Purchased the New York Times when he was 38 IPHIGENE BERTHA OCHS b. 1892, d. 1990 Sole heiress to the Times fortune ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER b. 1891, d. 1968 Times publisher until 1961 MARIAN SULZBERGER b. 1918 Philanthropist and conservationist married ORVIL DRYFOOS Times publisher from 1961 to 1963 RUTH SULZBERGER b. 1921 Former publisher of the Chattanooga Times m. BEN HALE GOLDEN (div.) LYNN IPHIGENE GOLDEN b. 1952 Former director at the Smithsonian zoo m. EDWARD DOLNICK SAMUEL DOLNICK b. 1980 Associate editor JUDITH SULZBERGER b. 1923, d. 2011 Physician m. CAROL FOX FUHRMAN (dec’d) CATHY JEAN SULZBERGER b. 1949 Real-estate developer m. JOE PERPICH DAVID SULZBERGER PERPICH b. 1977 Senior vice-president ARTHUR OCHS “PUNCH” SULZBERGER b. 1926, d. 2012 Times publisher…

THESE DAYS, it can sometimes feel like the only new businesses opening in this city are TD Banks, Soul-Cycles, and Juice Presses. And yet, there are numerous weird and wondrous stores making their New York debuts, including Seattle-born Totokaelo, which is taking over five floors in Soho with Yohji Yamamoto sweaters and an art-book lending library, as well as a Ricky’s spinoff devoted to social-media-popularized grooming products. On the food front, get ready for perfectly fluffy lemon-meringue cake (shown here) and reconceived black-and-white cookies from an ex–Goldman Sachs VP at Mah-Ze-Dahr and double cheeseburgers and housemade hot dogs from April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman at Salvation Burger. And, yes, a Señor Frogs is opening in Times Square, but those who would rather not drink margaritas by the yard with visiting…

MICHIGAN-BORN, Pakistani by heritage, and banker by trade, Umber Ahmad came to her culinary profession by a circuitous route. The Wharton MBA left Goldman Sachs and launched a firm that helps luxury-food and consumer-goods brands expand overseas. Tom Colicchio became a client, and once he learned that Ahmad was an avid cook, he asked to try her food. “It was like bringing a prayer book to the Pope,” she says. His culinary Holiness was so impressed that he not only encouraged her to turn pro with an online bakery called Mah-Ze-Dahr (Urdu for something’s signature essence)—he became an equity owner. For the past two years, Ahmad and her partner and co-chef, Shelly Acuña Barbera, have been baking out of Colicchio’s ’wichcraft headquarters, delivering locally and shipping nationwide, and this fall,…

LAURENT TOURONDEL has stealthily been fine-tuning the dishes for L’Amico, his Italian-accented restaurant at the Eventi hotel, for a while now, trying them out on unsuspecting revelers who gather at the hotel’s bar, the Vine, and who probably have no idea the man roasting their wood-oven chicken and smoking their gnudi got his start cooking for the admiral of the French navy. Based on a couple of Vine visits, we can already tell you that we’re impressed. And judging by the soppressata picante pie, you’d think that Tourondel, who’s making his New York pizza debut, had been stretching dough and moving Margheritas around the oven’s hot spot all his life. L’Amico, 849 Sixth Ave., at 30th St.; 212-201-4065; Sept.…

Diamond Supply Co. 286 Lafayette St.; end of August WHO Readers of Thrasher who might otherwise shop at Supreme, which is a few doors down. WHAT Limited-edition printed-in-the-USA tees, designed in collaboration with New York–based UXA ($38) and DJ legends Stretch and Bobbito ($38); purple or cream logo skateboard decks ($50). HANG Two Barcelona loungers sit next to a coffee table covered with skateboard magazines; an outdoor bench on a sidewalk wide enough to skate; scheduled appearances from skaters and artists. The Slowear Store 116 Prince St.; mid-August WHO Readers of A Continuous Lean who prefer their virgin wool knit in Northern Italy. WHAT Handmade, in-store-exclusive designs from four Italian brands: Incotex slim-fit chinos ($350), Zanone knit sweaters (from $295), Glanshirt button-downs (from $225), Montedoro blazers (from $950). HANG A…

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DRINK BAR GOTO Try the Sakura Martini (made with sake, gin, Maraschino, and cherry blossom) at this Japanese bar from Kenta Goto—the American Bartender of the Year winner at 2011's Tales of the Cocktail, formerly of Pegu Club. Snacks such as grilled cheese okonomiyaki are by Bohemian's Kiyo Shinoki. 245 Eldridge St., nr. Houston St.; 212-475-4411. Open now. LEAF BAR AND LOUNGE Most likely, you think of noodle-slurping, not craft-cocktail-swilling, when it comes to Flushing. But co-owner Todd Leong (Lucky Rice) hopes to change that with this rooftop izakaya serving drinks like Sweet Dreams (bourbon, chamomile, honey, fig) and Taiwanese-night-market-inspired food like popcorn chicken. 133-42 39th Ave., Flushing; 718-865-8158. Open now. DREXLER’S In a bilevel space (complete with an upright piano and old church pews as seating), Darin Rubell, the…

STEVE JOBS, Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle's selective biopic, ran a painfully public gauntlet to production, riddled with false starts, jettisoned stars, and even a supporting role in the Sony-hack saga. Among its most interesting and salutary turns was Kate Winslet's 11th-hour casting as Joanna Hoffman, the brunette Eastern European–born marketing guru who speaks truth to Jobs's charismatic power. After lobbying producer Scott Rudin with an emailed photo of herself in a wig, Winslet disappeared into Hoffman, opposite Michael Fassbender's Jobs, over the course of a whirlwind series of long, intricate scenes. She regaled New York with the backstory and more during preparations for another chaotic production, a dinner party at home in England. NED ROCKNROLL, WINSLET’S HUSBAND: Hello. Who am I talking to? New York Magazine. NED:…

MON The Civil War (PBS, 9 p.m., 9/7–9/11) Ken Burns's groundbreaking documentary celebrates its 25th anniversary with five nights of his trademark grave voice-overs, slow pans over somber photos, and lilting American music. Minority Report (Fox, 9 p.m., 9/21) Team up with Meagan Good and Stark Sands to solve yet-to-happen crimes, à la Steven Spielberg's 2002 film (see page 112), which failed to predict Tom Cruise's current renaissance. Blindspot (NBC, 10 p.m., 9/21) Wouldn't Memento make a plausible TV show? A Jane Doe covered in nothing but tats emerges from a duffel bag in Times Square, and only her ink will help her discover her identity. The Daily Show With Trevor Noah (Comedy Central, 11 p.m., 9/28) After 16 years of Jon Stewart—no pressure, Trevor. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW, 8…

LIMITLESS (CBS) Based on: Neil Burger’s 2011 thriller, starring Bradley Cooper. The Plot: Brian Finch (Jake McDorman) is a slacker musician who stumbles onto mystery drug NZT, making him the smartest man alive and drawing the attention of shady senator Ed Morra (Cooper, recurring in his original role). What If I Haven’t Seen the Film? “There’s no burden of prior knowledge at all,” assures executive producer Craig Sweeny. “The procedural’s a very sturdy format.” MINORITY REPORT (FOX) Based on: Steven Spielberg–Tom Cruise’s 2002 sci-fi thriller. The Plot: A decade after Washington, D.C.’s abolished pre-crime policing, telepathic pre-cogs Dash (Stark Sands), Arthur (Nick Zano), and Agatha (Laura Regan) have been relegated to a life in hiding, and killers are having a field day. What If I Haven’t Seen the…

NETFLIX F Is for Family Bill Burr’s animated sitcom. Jessica Jones Krysten Ritter enters Marvel’s universe. The New Mr. Th Peabody and Sept Sherman . 24 (ABC Show ) Elizabeth kills Tom cartoon reboot.on the FBI’s Most AMAZON ht alongside Red. Red Oaks A country-club comedy from David Gordon Green. The Man in the High Castle What if the Axis won WWII? The Mad Knick Dogs , Oct. 16 (Cinemax American ) Hackery kills 40-somethings in a woman during a procedure trouble in and Belize goes .to rehab to recover from cHULU addiction The .. Way .with heroin Aaron . Paul’s series return.…

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Madison Square Garden, 9/12. MADONNA MSG, 9/16 and 9/17, and Barclays Center, 9/19. CHARLI XCX AND BLEACHERS SummerStage, 9/21. A$AP ROCKY & TYLER, THE CREATOR The Theater at MSG, 9/22. FATHER JOHN MISTY Terminal 5, 9/25. R. KELLY Barclays, 9/25 ARIANA GRANDE Barclays, 9/26 and 9/27. BILLY JOEL MSG, 9/26,10/21, 11/19, and 12/17. CHVRCHES SummerStage, 9/29. TAME IMPALA Terminal 5, 10/07. BLUR MSG, 10/23. DISCLOSURE MSG, 10/24. THE WHO MSG, 10/27. DEAD & COMPANY MSG, 10/31 and 11/1. MY MORNING JACKET Beacon Theatre, 11/24 to 11/28.…

KANYE WEST, Swish The album that was once called So Help Me God is now called Swish, but Yeezy reserves the right to change that. COLDPLAY, A Head Full of Dreams The band’s seventh album will include highly personal songs that allow you to “shuffle your feet a little bit,” says lead singer Chris Martin. With production team Stargate (Beyoncé, Rihanna, Katy Perry), that sounds like a given. DRAKE, View From the 6 Aubrey Graham’s fourth studio album remains largely mysterious, though he has admitted it will be a departure from previous work, a Beyoncé collaboration notwithstanding. MACKLEMORE, TBA On New Year’s Day 2015, Macklemore tweeted that a new album from him and collaborator Ryan Lewis would arrive within the calendar year. The world…

SEPT 9/4 The Odyssey Delacorte Theater; through 9/7 West Side Story Tony winner Karen Olivo returns from a stint in Wisconsin for this modern-day Homeric musical. With Brandon Victor Dixon and Andy Grotelueschen. 9/10 Isolde Theater for a New Audience; through 9/27; previews begin 9/6 Richard Maxwell's update of the Tristan-and-Isolde story features a successful construction executive, his actress wife, and the big-shot architect who threatens their marriage. 9/17 The Christians Playwrights Horizons; previews begin 8/28 The much-praised young playwright Lucas Hnath brings his good news to godless Manhattan theatergoers—featuring a megachurch, an incendiary preacher, and a live choir. Hamlet in Bed Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; previews begin 8/28 To stalk or not to stalk? An actor obsessed with both playing the doomed prince of Denmark and finding his birth mother…

OLIVIER AWARD–WINNING British actor Mark Strong—square of jaw, piercing of gaze—is known Stateside for playing elegant, slightly sinister supporting characters, but he'll be center stage in his Broadway debut this November, as Red Hook longshoreman Eddie Carbone in the Young Vic's production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge. He spoke about finding Eddie, working with suddenly-everywhere director Ivo van Hove, and the British tradition of being a bad guy. This is a potentially odd match: a British cast, an experimental Belgian director, and a quintessentially American play. What convinced you to get involved? I was at home reading movie scripts, and in the pile was A View From the Bridge. It was head and shoulders above everything else. I realized what a fascinating character Eddie is and just…

M TRAIN By Patti Smith “It’s not so easy writing about nothing. That’s what a cowpoke was saying as I entered the frame of a dream.” CITY ON FIRE By Garth Risk Hallberg “In New York, you can get anything delivered. Such, anyway, is the principle I’m operating on. It’s the middle of summer, the middle of life.” THE MARK AND THE VOID By Paul Murray “Idea for a novel: we have a banker rob his own bank. He’s working alone at first; it’ll look like a classic inside job. This man, however, is not what you’d call an insider.” FATES AND FURIES By Lauren Groff “A thick drizzle from the sky, like a curtain’s sudden sweeping.”…

When Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony at Lincoln Center, he’ll bring controversy to the podium. Earlier this year, activists waved banners in front of the Met Opera criticizing the man who they said plays “Putin’s tune.” The Moscow-born conductor is under fire for not denouncing his country’s anti-gay laws and championing Russia’s Crimean aggression. But the maestro sees politics as separate from music. He told the Times , “If I know I have to perform in Carnegie Hall … I just have to know what the music is.”…

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