Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/29-11/11/18 i New York Magazine

1 New York’s latest issue was devoted to powerful women talking about power: fighting for it, winning it, losing it, wielding it (“Women and Power,” October 15–28). Laura McQuade, president and CEO of New York City’s Planned Parenthood, wrote, “In the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, which left many of us despondent and enraged, it was a pleasure to read the celebration of women’s supreme resilience and grit in this issue that explores the many facets of women’s power in a world determined to diminish us at every turn.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, we heard from readers about who was (and wasn’t) included, such as Michael Rapaport, who tweeted, “Stormy shouldn’t have made The Cut” (a nod to the story’s appearance on New York’s site the Cut). Sonya…

WHAT’S AT STAKE THIS NOVEMBER?  An Incomplete List of What the American Electorate Will Be Deciding This Fall (With or Without Your Input) LOANS STUDENT Should the government help ease your student-loan debt? The Democrats are the only party that has evinced any interest in providing relief to student debtors. If the GOP has a good night on November 6, it will likely lock Dems out of a Senate majority until after you’ve paid back every cent. GERRYMANDERING Which party should get to decide how much your vote counts? Whichever party wins the bulk of the 36 state gubernatorial races will have a greater hand in setting electoral-district boundaries when maps are redrawn in 2020—thereby determining how much a millennial’s vote is worth in the next decade of House races.…

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SONYA KOZLOVA Freelance Illustrator Where are you off to? I walk through Prospect Heights to go to my boss’s house. He’s an older comic artist. I ship his drawings and help him out with his online strategy. I draw too. A lot of personal illustration. Mostly I focus on a character called Sonnie Kozlover—which is a more gender-neutral version of my name, Sonya Kozlova—because, though I identify as female, I am exploring narratives of gender queerness in my personal life and in my art. Sonnie Kozlover has a Tinder profile, scrolls Instagram, walks through New York City. Does Sonnie shave their head too? Yes. I started drawing Sonnie soon after I shaved my head, two years ago, actually. I was in a restaurant in Brooklyn with my mother, who’s…

IN A HOTEL ROOM above midtown Manhattan, Peter Dinklage is discussing, among other things, his present—that’d be HBO’s My Dinner With Hervé, in which he plays the late Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize. (The TV movie is based on a real-life encounter between Villechaize and its writer-director, Sacha Gervasi.) And on the sidewalk down below, some fans are waiting, clutching mementos of his past. That is, they’re hoping the actor will sign their Game of Thrones memorabilia when he leaves. (The show, in which he plays Tyrion Lannister, wrapped the shooting of its final season this past summer.) “I take more of an issue with fame than Hervé did,” says the 49-year-old Dinklage, who’s aware of the ways in which Villechaize’s celebrity was a precursor of his own. “It’s a…

THERE’S BOTH A LOT and very little happening in Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery. The “lot” is contextual: The 86-year-old Elaine May is on Broadway for the first time since 1960, when she performed in this same theater as part of an era-defining sketch duo with Mike Nichols. Lonergan’s play, director Lila Neugebauer, and Lucas Hedges, who plays its narrator, are all making their Broadway debuts. Michael Cera and Joan Allen round out the cast, along with David Cromer, whose own directing work—from The Treasurer to Our Town to The Band’s Visit—sits in conversation with The Waverly Gallery, a play that’s dedicated to the meticulous commemoration of the unextraordinary. And that’s the “very little”: The Waverly Gallery isn’t so much a drama as it is an observance, in both senses…

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AMERICANS HAVE SHORT MEMORIES. But here we are in an election year. The same year in which a former student murdered 17 of his classmates in Parkland, Florida—and another student killed ten in Texas. In which at least 75 other shootings in schools barely made the news and then slipped right out of it (which often happens when victims are people of color). ¶ It’s stunning to think that these shootings—these attacks on children—aren’t being talked about constantly. ¶ One of the first recorded American school shootings took place in 1840. But the first high-school shooting that truly lodged itself in our consciousness was Columbine, in 1999, when two students wearing trench coats fatally shot 13 of their classmates. It took 45 minutes for a SWAT team to go in.…

THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM has given young people plenty of cause for deleting its number from our phones, unfriending it on Face-book, and cutting it out of our lives completely in a fit of self-care. ¶ Electoral politics promised us a democracy, then let the Supreme Court pick our president; vowed to protect us from terror, then sent our friends to die for the cause of birthing ISIS; seduced us with sweet nothings about upward mobility and “the knowledge economy,” then buried us in our parents’ basements under a pile of student debt; gave us hope that an audacious young president would make change we could believe in—then bailed out the banks, foreclosed on our families, and delivered us into a nightmare parody of all that he was supposed to…

GUESTS AT THE MET GALA are encouraged to dress in keeping with the exhibition’s theme. This year’s was “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” and most who wished to signal Catholicism did so through jeweled crosses and gold halos. Rihanna, taking opulence to its papal extreme, arrived in a sparkling minidress and miter. ¶ Penny Martin, the editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman, attended the gala as the guest of Tory Burch. The Gentlewoman is a biannual women’s magazine first launched by the Dutch founders of Fantastic Man; Martin was the rare editor not employed by Condé Nast to make Vogue’s guest list. She wore a vintage black Yves Saint Laurent dress (high neck, bell sleeves) and a black Céline evening coat. It was a look that might be described as…

PHILIP CORTELYOU JOHNSON, the architect and MoMA curator, died in 2005 at age 98. By then, he had long since become the urbane public face of the American architecture Establishment. As this excerpt from Mark Lamster’s new biography, The Man in the Glass House, reveals, he spent the late 1930s quite differently: as a wealthy young aesthete gadding about Germany and embracing Nazi politics. IN NEW YORK IN the fall of 1937, Johnson reunited with Lawrence Dennis, the preeminent intellectual force of the American fascist movement. Johnson was a financial benefactor of Dennis, who had traveled to Europe in the summer of 1936 to explore fascism in its native environment, meeting with Mussolini and then with Alfred Rosenberg, the chief theorist of the Nazi myth of Teutonic superiority. Keeping his…

WHEN THE STAR of a popular TV series gets forced out in a scandal, can the show go on? Netflix’s House of Cards and ABC’s Roseanne are the latest programs to face this conundrum. Kevin Spacey, who played the devilish, fourth-wall-breaking President Francis Underwood in five seasons of Cards, was fired after revelations of decades of sexual misconduct. Roseanne Barr—who had devolved over the decades from a left-wing celebrity of working-class origins into a Pizzagate-hawking tinfoil-hatter—posted a racist tweet and was instantly cut loose. Both series have returned after producers devised ways to keep things going. The results are fascinating—even though both shows end up being mainly about the void left by the loss of their star, and neither entirely overcomes the feeling that it exists to salvage an investment.…

Host Molly Fischer: “The Cut’s voice—smart, funny, skeptical, and ever-evolving—has always been my favorite part of the site. A podcast feels like the perfect new outlet for that voice, since it’s a medium all about (literal) voices. On November 6, we’ll have a special Election Day episode, and on November 13, ahead of HBO’s adaptation of the Neapolitan novels, we’ll be taking a deep dive into author Elena Ferrante’s Italy.” Subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday at 6 a.m.…

WHY YOUNG PEOPLE DON’T VOTE... More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will. Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won’t vote. AS TOLD TO RACHEL BASHEIN, ZAK CHENEY-RICE, AMELIA SCHONBEK, AND EMMA WHITFORD SAMANTHA AGE 22 / OLD BRIDGE, NJ / LAST VOTED: 2016 2016 was such a disillusioning experience. Going into the election, I was so proud to be in this country at this moment, so proud to be voting for Hillary Clinton. I had my Clinton sweatshirt on all day. I was on Twitter telling people that if they didn’t vote they were dead to me—like the whole thing. Watching the results come in, it was just disheartening. My…

Comté Madeleines With Jambon de Pays and Grated Black Truffle In the six months since they opened their Tribeca bistro, Frenchette, chefs Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson have become known for doing classic French cooking (as opposed to all the endless iterations of “fusion French cooking”) but still reinventing it a bit, of course. For our annual holiday-food issue, they took that flair for subtle theater and applied it to a Thanksgiving feast that could feel equally exciting for both meat lovers (an herb-crusted 16-rib lamb cut) and vegetarians—meaning that in their hands, the typical vegetable option of sweet-potato casserole instead becomes an artichoke-fennel-carrot tagine rich enough to be a main event. The dishes also happen to be similar to those available at the restaurant (though there’s a month’s wait…

THERE’S AN INCIDENT FROM early on in Elton John’s career that reminds us how peculiar it has been. The year was 1970. At the time, John was a pudgy, morose 22-year-old, a nobody on the English music scene who’d been able to record an album, Empty Sky, that had gone nowhere. His second album, self-titled, came out that spring. The first single from it, “Border Song,” was a flop. His label dug out a non-album track, “Rock and Roll Madonna,” as the second single. It was ignored. The label went back to the album, poked around some more, and made a third try, with a song called “Take Me to the Pilot.” It wasn’t a hit. By this time, John had finished a third album, Tumbleweed Connection, which was released…

Disoriental, by Négar Djavadi Translated by Tina Kover (Europa Editions) Doubly dislocated from the American experience is this French-Iranian writer’s novel about a young woman torn between her life in Paris and her deep family roots back in Iran. Love, by Hanne Ørstavik Translated by Martin Aitken (Archipelago Books) In Norway’s far north, a mother and son live out a long and creepy night, mostly separately, until their paths converge calamitously, in this slim but powerful novel. Trick, by Domenico Starnone Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri (Europa Editions) An illustrator is summoned to Naples to babysit his 4-year-old grandson and scoff at his daughter’s bourgeois conventions. The Emissary, by Yoko Tawada Translated by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions) In the aftermath of a devastating…