Innholdsfortegnelse for 9/17-9/30/18 i New York Magazine

1 “Is it possible we’ve never really met Jonah Hill before?” Adam Sternbergh asked in his cover story on the actor, sartorial icon, and first-time director (“What Do You Expect From Jonah Hill?,” September 3–16). Poulomi Das said, “Such a lovely piece deconstructing the second coming of Jonah Hill. (Was I the only one who didn’t know that Beanie Feldstein, who played Julie in Ladybird, is his sister?)” The story also revealed that Hill has a tattoo of Beanie’s name, which prompted Anna Brand of NBC News to write, “I would be concerned if my brother tattooed my name on his arm.” And @menssen tweeted, “I usually detest celebrity profiles, but this Jonah Hill #longread was a nice break from reading about the end of America.” 2 Across the country,…

HAS a politician ever debased himself more in public than when Lindsey Graham eulogized his friend John McCain? Bleary-eyed from grief, the senior senator from South Carolina took his place at the lectern on the Senate floor and insisted on his own inferiority. He was the Great Man’s mascot, his funny little buddy—his “wingman,” he said—lucky to have walked in his shadow and blessed to have been loved by him. McCain, who used pejoratives as endearments, called Graham “Little Jerk.” Recalling this, Graham looked up from his notes, seeming to be considering its meaning for the first time. “You’ve all got your names,” he said darkly. “And you earned them like I did.” It is tempting to imagine that in that moment, Graham was reflecting on all the ways he…

ONCE, SHE WAS SEEN AS A VICTIM, her youth and relative innocence taken advantage of by a powerful, much older man who sucked her into his vortex. Or, alternately, she was a Lolita, a seductress who wittingly betrayed the Mother Teresa–like figure who’d saved her from life in an orphanage. These days, Soon-Yi Previn is seen as an accomplice of sorts, who, in the wake of renewed accusations by Dylan Farrow that Dylan’s adoptive father, Woody Allen, sexually molested her, has stood by Allen even as his reputation has plummeted and his once-revered films have been reassessed in the light of the #MeToo movement. Throughout this time, Soon-Yi herself, the slim Korean-born woman with a curtain of dark hair who showed up occasionally at Allen’s side in grainy news images,…

WHAT YOU SEE before you is a whole, four-pound-ish Spanish turbot stuffed with lemon and thyme, cocooned in a sort of salty meringue, and presented tableside for general admiration. What you don’t see is the battery of reimagined condiments and garnishes that make this new addition to Momofuku Nishi’s menu a true member of the extended tribe of Momofuku large-format feasts: There’s fish sauce and white soy sauce in the salsa verde, garam masala in the caponata, yuzu kosho in the aïoli, plus bowls of Calabrian chile paste and pungent boquerones with piquillo peppers. Like Ssäm Bar’s bo ssäm and Noodle Bar’s dueling fried chickens, the fish (once neatly filleted and basted with brown butter) is meant to be pounced upon and tucked, if so desired, into the soft lettuce…

1¼ HOURS FROM THE CITY IT WAS HERE, in a little stone house beside the Hudson, that George Washington oversaw the end of the Revolutionary War. By the mid-19th century, Newburgh was home to some of the major architects and landscape designers of the era, among them Andrew Jackson Downing, a native Newburgher who opened a firm here and inspired Calvert Vaux, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Frederick Clarke Withers to build in town. The result is an incredibly charming mix of Greek Revival, Romanesque, Carpenter Gothic, Queen Anne, and High Victorian buildings and rowhouses (some preserved, some, sadly, less so). Newburgh, like so many towns along the Hudson, was a big manufacturing hub in the early-20th century, though when the Thruway was opened in the ’50s and the bridge to…

“Illuminated Festival, which we have every summer, is about telling folks in the Hudson Valley who have really negative feelings about this place, bringing them in to spend a day, to take another look, resee our architecture, resee what the community has to offer.” —PAUL ERNENWEIN, LAWYER “I love North Plank Road Tavern. It’s an old-school place that has really good food—like steamed mussels and braised pork shoulder—kind of on the edge of the city before the bridge to Beacon. Solidly good. Those people have been here forever, and they get kind of overlooked with all the new things coming in.” —JAMES HOLLAND, FILMMAKER “I feel like between The Wherehouse and Ms. Fairfax, there’s no favorite bar. We swap back and forth. We never leave one of them empty for…

I THINK WHAT’S important about this place is it hasn’t quite figured out yet how cool it can be,” says designer John Schlotter, who manufactures the clothing line Artists & Revolutionaries in Catskill. He opened his store in Hudson but moved into a live-work space here about a year ago for less rent. The consensus from him and other locals is that the town took a turn in the past few years. “Just five years ago, you would go down to Catskill on a Saturday and nothing was open,” says Susan DeFord, a real-estate agent who moved up from Park Slope. Another Brooklyn transplant is Rob Kalin, the founder of Etsy, who purchased a few buildings here. In 2015, he and other local parents opened a cooperative school in town…

“Sunhee’s Farm and Kitchen is this incredible farm-to-table Korean restaurant. It’s really fresh. They’ve also developed a program to work with refugees—they offer free English classes four days a week.” —ELIZABETH DUBBEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COLLAR WORKS “The Narrows is a trail system that will connect one end of the city to the other. They’ve been working on it for three or four years now. A lot of it is open, about 50 percent, and it’ll probably be closer to 70 percent by the end of the year.” —HEZZIE PHILLIPS, ARTS-NONPROFIT DIRECTOR “There’s a nicely designed coffee shop and homewares store called Superior Merchandise Company. They do curated events there, like an art-making night; they’ve really helped pull together this scene.” —E.D.…

The Corrections JONATHAN FRANZEN 2001 Arriving just before 9/11, the novel recounts the tragicomic breakdown of a 20th-century American Dream of middleness: midwestern and middle class. The Lamberts, with their mentally disintegrating patriarch, Christmas-obsessed mother, and grown siblings tackling depression, professional failure, adultery, and celebrity chefdom, may not seem as universal as they once did, but the sensation of certainties evaporating as we pitch headlong into this still-young century has only gotten stronger. LAURA MILLER The Neapolitan quartet ELENA FERRANTE 2011–15 Ferrante’s Italy is where the personal is political, the male gaze is visceral, and the past clings to the present with potent force. Across four books and over the lifetimes of its two unforgettable main characters, the quartet explores female rage, agency, and friendship with a raw power. Lila…

AS OUR ROCK, pop, and funk elders enter their twilight years, they’ve devised many different methods of continuing to create despite the pressure of living up to their legacies. Some revisit and rearrange their back-catalogue classics like interior decorators giving familiar rooms new life. Others take a shine to standards, like recent Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan albums dedicated in whole or in part to covering songs made famous by Frank Sinatra. This month, Paul McCartney and Paul Simon have released new albums that seem restless about their makers’ place in the rock canon. Or maybe their place in their own canon. McCartney’s Egypt Station attempts to shake up the former Beatle’s trademark sentimentality and elegance by getting loose, randy, and a little political. Simon’s In the Blue Light arrives…

IF YOU LOVE BOB DYLAN Girl From the North Country, Public Theater. The don’t-call-it-a-jukebox-musical play by Conor McPherson, intercut with Bob Dylan songs, makes its North American premiere. In previews now for an October 1 opening. WHEN YOU’RE IN THE MOOD FOR ABSURDITY On Beckett, Irish Repertory Theatre. The great actor-clown Bill Irwin explores the works of Samuel Beckett, a key figure in the Theatre of the Absurd movement. In previews September 26 for an October 3 opening. IF YOU REALLY MISS PRINCE Black Light, Greenwich House Theater. Performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones, a.k.a. Jomama Jones, revives this show of American Afrofuturist humor and music Off Broadway. In previews September 24 for an October 10 opening.…

Are you here for Fashion Week? I actually live in Chinatown, as of a year ago. But I’m from Texas. I’m represented here and in Japan. How’d that happen? A couple years ago, I got a DM asking if I wanted to sign with this agency in Japan. I was pretty sure it was a real agency—but not really. I got on a plane three weeks later, and when I got off, it was evening and this guy named Masa, who had a million braids in his hair, was there to pick me up in a van. The first casting was that night in a basement. I didn’t book it—or anything for a long time. But I stayed. I’d always hoped modeling would help me get to Japan. Why Japan?…

In March 2016, John Zelehoski, a skateboarder who works in art and production, bought a 1900 three-bedroom, two-story building from the Newburgh Community Land Bank for $11,400. Here’s what he had to put into it to make it livable. The work already done by Land Bank $67K: “New EPDM roof, basement clean-out, new concrete foundation, testing and remediation of lead and asbestos, new electrical meter. Somehow it still felt like starting from scratch.” The demo $5K: “Tearing down walls, exposing and fixing structural issues. I hired my neighbors from the block for demo. I probably said ‘Last dump run’ six times before my actual last dump run.” The construction $20K each on electrical and plumbing: “I hired professionals.” $700 for skylights: “They were quoted at $2K. My dad, mom, and…

“Gracie’s Luncheonette is Catskill’s answer to Phoenicia Diner—really good doughnuts. It’s in Leeds, a small hamlet of Catskill.” —SUSAN DEFORD, REAL-ESTATE AGENT “Circle W is a little general store that also does breakfast and lunch, and sometimes they have live music in the barn.” —S.D. “HiLo is the coffee shop everyone goes to. They’re constantly curating cool things in their space. I spend a lot of time there; they’ve really galvanized the creative community in town.” —STEF HALMOS, ARTIST “Captain Kidd’s is a pirate-themed bar—plastic statues of pirates everywhere—in this old, historic building. It’s really weird.” —JOHN SCHLOTTER, DESIGNER “There’s a great place on Main Street, New York Restaurant, sort of modern Polish food. It’s warm and sophisticated.” —S.H. “I eat dinner at La Conca D’Oro twice a week. This…

IF YOU WANT to put the work in, you can have a Victorian-era building for $1,000 or $5,000,” says Hezzie Phillips, director of the nonprofit arts space the Post Contemporary, who purchased two Neo-Gothic Revival buildings in Troy when she was priced out of her building in North Adams, Massachusetts. “Eight years ago, people were like, ‘Why would you leave the Berkshires?’ They don’t ask me that now.” What initially drew Phillips to Troy was the hint of a budding arts community, led in part by art students from nearby Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Around the same time, a group of SUNY Albany M.F.A. grads moved over and formed an artists collective called Collar Works, which now runs a nonprofit arts space out of an old collar factory downtown on River…

OKAY, ASSESSING A CENTURY’S literary legacy after only 18 and a half years is kind of a bizarre thing to do. Actually, constructing a canon of any kind is a little weird at the moment, when so much of how we measure cultural value is in flux. Born of the ancient battle over which stories belonged in the “canon” of the Bible, the modern literary canon took root in universities and became defined as the static product of consensus—a set of leather-bound volumes you could shoot into space to make a good first impression with the aliens. Its supposed permanence became the subject of more recent battles, back in the 20th century, between those who defended it as the foundation of Western civilization and those who attacked it as exclusive…

2000 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay MICHAEL CHABON In a novel about Houdinis, femmes fatales, comic-book villains, and American self-invention, the strongest superpower is the ability to tell a great story. N.R. The Amber Spyglass PHILIP PULLMAN A stew of Milton and Blake, rich with allusion, kind and fierce, that made clear the imaginative and literary heights to which books for young people could ascend. D.K. True History of the Kelly Gang PETER CAREY Ecstatic and furious: There isn’t a novelist alive shy of Toni Morrison who can forge sprung poetry from the speech of mere mortals quite like Carey. J.F. 2001 The Beauty of the Husband ANNE CARSON An unsurpassed template for the collision of essay, poetry, fiction, and memoir that has arguably become a dominant literary…

In May I Come In? (Abrams, September 25), Wendy Goodman, who first worked for New York in 1984 and has been producing design stories here since 1997, recounts an unusual life. An uncanny percentage of her friends are hugely talented and/or just fabulous, and the book tells her professional story as a tour through three worlds: her own life, those amazing interiors, and the great era of print magazines. Here, we’ve excerpted five of her most memorable New York recollections. It’s a greatest-hits reel that is by no means complete: You’ll see her latest in our next issue. 1. Andrew Solomon When the writer Andrew Solomon bought his townhouse on West 10th Street, it was a gloomy beauty, with cracked walls and peeling paint. I went to see it before…

ANYONE WHO THINKS it’s nothing but teeth-grinding paranoia and rank misery in Washington these days hasn’t been to the office of New Jersey senator Cory Booker. These people are happy. Indeed, his staff are some of the cheeriest, nicest people you could ever hope to meet. When I arrive on a hot, swampy morning just before Labor Day weekend, I am greeted with hugs and candy. An exuberant woman in a dashiki sits at reception. Kristin Lynch, the communications director, greets me—okay, hugs me—and takes me to Booker’s office, where we say hello to his chief of staff, Matt Klapper, who also hugs me. Booker has not hugged me yet, but give him time. A young staffer comes in and hands Booker a brown-paper bag and tells him she managed…

THE GOAL: Find a bento box that’ll satisfy both second-graders going back to school with PB&Js and grown-ups who want to bring last night’s leftovers to the office. THE VERDICT: The Red Dot Design Award–winning Monbento Original bento box ($30 at Knife & Spork, 602 Myrtle Ave., Bedford-Stuyvesant) was created by a French physical therapist who couldn’t find a suitable model in all of Europe. So she left her job in 2009 and made her own. It comes with two stackable layers to keep dressings separate from sandwiches and holds about four cups of food (far more than most boxes, which average two cups). Internal lids are fitted with a silicone hinge to keep them extra-snug, and the whole thing is wrapped with an elastic band, making it leakproof (though…

DRIVING AROUND NEWBURGH in August, I got the sense that some kind of change is going on. There’s a cluster of new stores (an apothecary, a bike museum ) and restaurants (organic-leaning ones) that have opened on the town’s main drag, Liberty Street, and renovation projects everywhere—all this alongside stretches of abandoned and condemned buildings. The contrasts can be disorienting—this is, after all, a city whose most recent claim to fame was being named the murder capital of the state. And changes like these are happening in other previously overlooked towns up the river too, like Catskill and Troy. It’d be too easy to declare any of these places a potential “next Hudson”—the onetime working-class town where antique lamps now go for $7,000. Hudson’s about-face, which resulted in longtime residents…

2½ HOURS FROM THE CITY AS IN MANY A 19TH-CENTURY TOWN on the Hudson, the river drove a lot of the industry in Catskill. Clearly inspired, the artist Thomas Cole moved here in 1836 and began the Hudson River school of landscape painting. Proximity to the water also allowed local vendors to harvest ice, which was scooped from the Hudson and shipped down to New York City. The once-sleepy town features Catskill Creek, a tributary of the river that snakes its way past former factories that have been restored and repurposed—a recent change that locals welcome.…

3 HOURS FROM THE CITY SLIGHTLY FARTHER AFIELD, about 140 miles from the city, Troy sits on the Hudson but is not technically in the Hudson Valley. Steel was big here, and so were shirtwaists and removable collars—industries that brought a bit of wealth to Troy in the mid-19th century. Though the city started to decline in the 1950s, its Victorian and Greek Revival townhouses and brownstones were mostly spared from urban renewal. About ten years ago, though, Troy showed signs of a turnaround, and the population started to rise for the first time in 50 years.…

JOHN C. REILLY ARRIVES at the posh hotel restaurant in a light suit and straw fedora that make him seem almost jaunty, like a country gent. He often claims he’d like to move through the world unnoticed—the eternal paradox of actors who’ve discovered a safe space exhibiting themselves on stages and film sets but feel exposed in the real world. This is his costume for promoting movies. Before he came, I was trying to remember when I first really noticed him, when I thought, Hold on, I love this guy. He was good from the start, credibly cretinous in his film debut as a follower of psychotic sarge Sean Penn in Brian De Palma’s grueling Vietnam drama Casualties of War (1989) and as the conflicted sidekick of another psycho (Kevin…

The Last Samurai HELEN DEWITT 2000 ASK A SET OF writers and critics to select books for a new canon and it shouldn’t come as a shock that the one the most of them name is about the nature of genius. Helen DeWitt’s first novel, The Last Samurai, is more precisely a book about human potential. Like many epics, it charts the education of its hero and proceeds by means of a quest narrative. A boy undertakes rigorous training and goes in search of his father. What makes it a story of our time is that the boy, Ludo, lives in an insufficiently heated London flat with his single mother, Sibylla. What makes it singular is that his training begins at age 4, when he starts to learn ancient Greek,…

Liana Finck, author-illustrator: “My favorite thing to do is to go to the Met on Friday nights and wander around the period rooms. It’s one of the rare times in my week when I can pretend I have an infinite amount of space and quiet and calm and propriety in the city. On a similar note, this panel is special because it’s a full page [in the book]—it creates a pause in the story.” See Liana Finck in conversation with fellow New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast at Green-light Bookstore in Brooklyn on September 20.…

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