Innholdsfortegnelse for September 30-October 13, 2019 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover article, the Rookie founder and early influencer Tavi Gevinson asked, “Who Would I Be Without Instagram?” (September 16–29). Many related to Gevinson’s feelings about growing up in the social-media age. Otegha K. Uwagba tweeted that Gevinson’s “understanding of our online selves, influencer culture, the media landscape is unparalleled.” And Charlie Warzel wrote, “Not sure I’ve read a better description of what being raised on social networks does to your sense of self than this.” Lou Papineau critiqued the magazine’s decision to feature the story on the cover, writing, “Trumpeting a faux celeb whining about ‘what Instagram did to [her]’ instead of highlighting David Wallace-Wells’s extraordinary feature on Greta Thunberg … is frivolous and shortsighted.” New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose praised the story:…

I CAN ONLY SHOW you this ’cause you’ve seen the film,” Aaron Paul says, grinning proudly as he scrolls through hundreds—maybe thousands?—of photos featuring his 19-month-old daughter, Story. He settles on a short video of the two of them taken during a break in the filming of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. The clip finds the actor in full makeup as Jesse Pinkman, the emotionally pulverized, physically lacerated meth-maker. As Paul gently describes to Story the harrowing (and very top-secret) El Camino scene he has just filmed, his daughter gazes at her father’s bruised and grubby face with affection. “She’s totally fine when she sees Jesse’s scars,” Paul says, putting down his phone. “She looks past all of that and right into my eyes.” “People always ask, ‘What happened…

Is it still? Will it ever be? These questions hover over a conversation about gender and power abuse one year after Christine Blasey Ford testified that she had been sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in high school; two years after investigative journalists published the accounts of women who’d been harassed and assaulted by Harvey Weinstein; three years after Roger Ailes stepped down as head of Fox News after being accused of harassment and coercion by women on his network; 28 years after Anita Hill testified about what she experienced working alongside Clarence Thomas. What has happened to the people who told their stories has been intense and strange and often difficult. It has included some celebration and relief, sure, but also unwelcome exposure, threats, and thrown drinks…

On the day Matt Lauer was fired, the phone lines and the texts lit up from so many women I worked with in the industry. A couple of them knew my story, and one of them asked, “Are you going to tell about Brokaw?” I was shaking. I was on the phone that morning with one of the Matt Lauer survivors. We were both vibrating with an anxiety we couldn’t name. I thought coming forward would be empowering and would help other women. A short dredging up of old memories and then it would be over. I was wrong about all of that. A few hours later, after the story published, my lawyer, Ari Wilkenfeld, called me and said, “Are you sitting down?” Brokaw had sent out an email. My…

I realized that it had affected my thinking about sex and intimacy in ways I couldn’t really understand until after all this came out, and I was reading more people’s accounts of their experiences. There were times in my sexual history as an adult when I responded to people coming on to me that I never would’ve pursued myself. In a way, it’s kind of like I was trying to square that circle of what had happened to me before. It’s some kind of weird returning to the source of trauma to try to heal. There’s a whole level of examination that’s occurring within the gay male community about these kinds of dynamics. There has been a long history of older men and men in power abusing that power toward…

was just out of college in my first I job, working for U.S. senator Patty Murray. Al Franken was the guest speaker at an event in 2006. I was working the photo line, and he pulled me in. Murray said, “Let’s take the picture.” And he puts his hand on my ass. He’s telling the photographer, “Take another one. I think I blinked. Take another one.” And I’m just frozen. It’s so violating. And then he gives me a little squeeze on my buttock, and I am bright red. I don’t say anything at the time, but I felt deeply, deeply uncomfortable. It was such a confusing experience. At first, I didn’t take it all that seriously. At the time of the incident, I think, I’m going to go to…

Everything Anita Hill said was true. I mean really true to the nth degree. I didn’t know her, but I thought it was necessary for somebody to come forward and corroborate her story. The women who were corroborating Clarence’s story, one was his secretary. The other woman was working for Clarence, and her mother was high up in the black Republican community. I knew the composition of that group, and they all benefited from their relationship with him. And I just realized Hill was being persecuted. So at that point, I said, Well, regardless of what the consequences are, somebody’s got to come to her aid. I did not know about some of the other women who made statements but were never interviewed, were never consulted, in reference to Clarence…

No one ever wins in a situation like this. Everyone loses something. And I felt like—okay, the scales of justice are never even, even though he was found guilty and went to jail. I lost what was taken from me, and he lost what he felt was an impenetrable bubble of—well, I don’t know what he’s thinking, I have no clue. I’m not bitter, but I would never go through it again, and I would never wish it on anyone else. It happened the way it was meant to, I guess. What’s justice? Define it. Who’s to say what’s justified? Was it enough, was it not enough? I don’t know. I don’t know if coming forward has really had any impact at all, aside from how the entire scenario has…

The Drawing Room Puzzle / $15 at shopthemansion.com / Collyer’s Mansion, a Brooklyn home-goods store, designed this puzzle with the artist Carly Beck. Mini Bird Puzzles / $6 at kikkerland.com / These 150-piecers feature fowl-centric illustrations by John James Audubon. Westerlind Jackson Hole Jigsaw Puzzle / $70 at westerlindoutdoor.com / At first glance, this looks like something from your grandmother’s basement. It’s actually made by Soho outdoors line Westerlind. Forbidden Fruit Puzzle / $36 at pieceworkpuzzles.com / Piecework sells four puzzles, each 1,000 pieces: the “Forbidden Fruit,” a tableau of citrus and tiki drinks; the “Meta Puzzle,” a hand assembling a puzzle; the “Life of the Party,” a smashed cake; and “Feeling Flushed,” a poker table. Third Drawer Down X Guerrilla Girls Disturbing the Peace Jigsaw Puzzle / $24 at…

THE unHappy HEroinE of The Mistakes Madeline Made, which premiered Off Broadway in 2006, hates working as one of 15 personal assistants to a financier and his family. The patriarch, she observes, “runs his home the way he runs his hedge fund—using a model to protect his family against the possibility of loss or waste or even just the unexpected.” His “Household System” demands perfection: Even the hunt for a duplicate pair of New Balance sneakers is to be executed with the logistical finesse of a Navy SEAL strike. The play was written by Elizabeth Meriwether, who would go on to create the sitcom New Girl for Fox. Her fictionalized account of her brief stint working for the Wall Street billionaire David E. Shaw never reached a wide audience, but…

helped to push me over the line a little bit. If you want to control the narrative around your part of this, you’ve got to be the person to take ownership of that. You could distill the risk down into two key things: personal and professional. It’s already so difficult for women to get venture-capital funding for their businesses—why on earth would I do anything, especially given that VCs are mostly men, to make that more difficult for myself? The personal side was more like, Well, I’m definitely going to get sued if I talk about this. My partner and I had just moved into a new home in San Francisco, and our lives were pretty good and coming together in a nice way. I saw it as, Well, it’s…

I was maybe 19 years old, with a small kid, constantly being told, “This is a good job, you don’t want to mess up something like this.” It’s a glorified position to have, to work for Ford Motor Company, to get these raises that they report in the news; you’re getting profit sharing, you’re getting paid $25.30 an hour with a high-school diploma. One of my harassers let me know that if I complained, they would receive the information: “Human resources lets us know, labor relations lets us know.” Where do you have some sort of safety to talk to someone or get some help? Where? It’s not there. I had seen other people who were courageous enough to speak out, and the backlash from that was something I was…

Out of the blue one day, a supervisor showed me a picture of his penis on his phone. That was it for me. I complained to the UAW and the superintendent. The UAW did not respond until more than a year later, and by that time I was in a shelter. I sent pictures to the representative of me and my disabled son on the floor and said, “This is what a 2015 UAW bargaining contract has gotten me and my family because I wouldn’t sleep around with supervisors on the job.” The retaliation once I started reporting—it got real ugly, real fast. The incident when the man attacked me in the break room about the lawsuit, I reported that right away. One man grabbed me by the waist, threw…

When I finally did tell the legislator I was working for about what was happening, I said I just want the old man to leave me the fuck alone. What my boss didn’t tell me was that there was an HR department with the legislature. There was somebody I could talk to there who wasn’t acting in the interest of just keeping the caucus together. It’s pretty much impossible for me to find political work here. About six to eight months after this had all died down, a candidate running for office in Fairbanks reached out. It was his first time running, and I think he hired me because he didn’t fully understand how much of a big deal that would be and how much institutional support that was going…

I’m interested in why so many interviewers want to make me feel bad. Is it because they want to see a woman on television crying because of what a man did to her? Why can’t they just have a woman sitting there matter-of-factly telling her story without bursting into tears or without being sad, sad, sad? I have a theory that they just don’t want to see a woman telling her story in a non-feminine way. People didn’t like a woman controlling her own story. They were frantic that I had written a book, because apparently in this country, a woman is not allowed to earn any money, making a living. It looks like she’s going to make money on it. That drove people crazy. About five days later, I…

My whole Me Too experience has been one of excruciating and unflattering self-awareness. It doesn’t take away from his abuse of power. But just the extent to which—and not just with Charlie; I can look back on my dating life and other people, other men I’ve worked for or consulted—you can just feel like a cog in these broader systems that create a really hostile world for women. I think that’s what I grappled with. I kept going to work. I kept traveling with him. I kept doing these things. What was my role in this? I didn’t think of myself as a sympathetic victim, and that was one of the reasons it was very important for me that the reporter use anything that could be used against me from…

The ’70s were a period of time in D.C. where these opportunities were unheard of for African-Americans. And I was the only woman ever hired for that position. I think this is the reason why men felt they were powerful enough to subject me to these hostilities. There were women who I worked with who gave in [and had sex with supervisors]. They were promised promotions and a lot of things. Once they gave in, these men got rid of the women. When I went to trial, I had five or six women I thought would be there to support me. Not one showed up. They had to subpoena one woman who did not want to testify. I went to my minister, and he offered no help. I was just…

JOE CAPO, 44, Technology Liquidator, California Is this your first competition? I’m not even supposed to be here. Me and my girlfriend came to Coney Island straight from her niece’s bat mitzvah in Gowanus. I wanted a hot dog and some clams. I’m eating my Nathan’s, and this guy Lou comes up, and he’s like, “Hey, are you going to the beard competition?” I’m like, “Very funny, man.” He leaves and comes back with this other guy, and he’s like, “Tony, this guy’s coming to the competition.” Then I realized he was serious. My girlfriend was hoping for a nice dinner, not a beard competition, but I was like, “Babe, I gotta go with Lou and Tony.” How’d your beard do? It was like bringing a knife to a…

CAN A MUSEUM DEVOTED TO MODERNISM SURVIVE THE DEATH OF THE MOVEMENT? Can it bring that death about? ¶ Ever since the beginnings of the Renaissance in the 14th century, most art movements have lasted one generation, sometimes two. Today, after more than 130 years, modernism is, at least by some measures, insanely and incongruously popular—a world brand. The first thing oligarchs do to signal sophistication, and to cleanse and store money, is collect and build personal museums of modern art, and there’s nothing museumgoers love more than a survey of a mid-century giant. In the U.S., modernism represents the triumph of American greatness and wealth, and it is considered the height of 20th-century European culture—which Americans bought and brought over (which is to say, poached). Kids sport tattoos of…

Marriage Story , October 4 and 12 Noah Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical portrait of a heartbreaking divorce, seen from both sides, veers between extremes of absurdity and pain. Beanpole , October 6 and 8 Russian director Kantemir Balagov’s epic drama looks at the tragically intertwined lives of two Leningrad women in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Atlantics , October 9 and 10 French-Senegalese director Mati Diop’s beguiling, shape-shifting film is a romantic drama, a social tragedy, a supernatural thriller, and a class allegory all at once.…

THE STANDOFF BETWEEN Bong Joon-ho and Harvey Weinstein over the U.S. cut of Snowpiercer had all the hallmarks of a scene the director might shoot himself. High drama. The Korean auteur versus the bullish American. Philosophical questions of artistic integrity in the time of mass consumption. Gallows humor. Snowpiercer is a unique hybrid. It looks like a slick Hollywood action movie with revolutionary themes, depicting a class rebellion set in a sci-fi dystopia led by none other than Captain America himself, Chris Evans. But despite its blockbuster appeal, Snowpiercer languished in limbo in the U.S. The Weinstein Company bought the distribution rights in 2012, but instead of giving the film an immediate release date, Weinstein demanded changes. He wanted to cut 25 minutes. He wanted more action, “more Chris Evans.”…

Filing that memo was a terrifying thing, but it didn’t feel like a choice. What I hoped would happen is that once HR saw from a valued employee that this was something she had experienced in the way of gender discrimination and harassment, and that she had reason to believe someone had been assaulted, there would be processes in place that would kick into gear. I do not know to this day whether change was made. I sent it over email. I was in a state of visible distress. Before I filed it, I called an attorney, and I had copied her in on the email. She started receiving calls from attorneys. That was the communication from that point forward. I was at the office, and I was told to…

I’m a single mom. My girls were very aware that a lot was going on, and it really gave me the opportunity to engage with my kids in an age-appropriate discussion of what I was going through, why Mommy was emotional. My girls were 7, 5, and 3. I sat them down and explained when Mommy was a teenager, someone who Mommy trusted broke that trust, and they touched me in places they should not have touched me and asked me to do things they should not have. Mommy was very scared, but Mommy did the right thing and told someone else. And the person Mommy told didn’t do the right thing for Mommy. And here we are, and Mommy is once again doing the right thing and standing up…

It never occurred to me that 10, 15, 20 years later, he would still be out doing parish work, assaulting other children. And it never ever occurred to me until I was 40 that the emotional problems I was having were related to my childhood abuse by this priest. I was sitting at my desk, looking at that morning’s Boston Globe, and there in the metro section was this little story about a priest out in New Mexico whom two men out there were accusing of assaulting them in the 1970s. And after the first paragraph, there was the name of my abuser. So I called the reporter at the Globe who had done the story. I was very worried because a gay man with AIDS in those days was…

In the beginning, I was a bit afraid, a bit ashamed of getting involved with the case. My main concern was getting myself into further problems with my supervisor—that he would look for me or do something to me—or that I would be detained by Immigration. But the things I was going through at the factory were very intense. I saw the other women who were involved in the case, and they encouraged me. The truth is that I couldn’t stay quiet, because had I stayed quiet, things may have gotten worse, right? When Jessie Ickom fired me, he told me I had to get him money. I told him I didn’t have that amount of money, because I was alone with my children. He said there was a way…

THE HUMBLE JIGSAW puzzle has gotten a rebrand. Earlier this year, Rachel Hochhauser and Jena Wolfe launched Piecework Puzzles (whose pieces can be seen here) that would look at home on a HAY coffee table (designs include a manicured hand smashing a coconut cake). The brand strategists are not the only ones creating decidedly non-folksy jigsaws. Last year, Area-ware, after the success of its breakout Gradient Puzzle, launched a series of puzzles in the shape of foodstuffs (a bowl of ramen, a cheese puff). And puzzles have been gaining popularity in general across the country: The U.S. market, still dominated by Ravensburger and Springbok, was valued at $631 million in 2019 (up from $404 million in 2012), according to Statista. This makes sense, says Hochhauser. “We’re in this moment where…

Do you ever admire other men’s beards? Well, I love when Sikhs give me a wink on the street. Those guys are beard goals, so it’s a big compliment. Does the beard cause any problems? You know, you wouldn’t believe how many people just come up and touch it. I’m like, “Don’t do that, please.” Do you enter these often? Yes. I placed eighth at the world competition in Antwerp. I have a vanity license plate that says XLBEARD. Do you get a lot of attention? Once someone told me they saw me on a documentary about sideshows. I was like, “I’ve never been in a documentary.”…

Remember when the only thing eggs had going against them was their cholesterol count? Nowadays, there’s murky labeling, animal-welfare concerns, bacterial outbreaks. There’s also the environmental impact that industrial agriculture entails. Just Egg, a liquid egg substitute concocted by the company formerly known as Hampton Creek, provides a sustainable alternative. It’s made from milled mung beans—a legume you might know from Indian dal, Chinese noodles, and in raw bean-sprout form—and Just’s manufacturing process requires less water and has a smaller carbon footprint than the avian competition. The scrambled “egg” has a mustardy hue (from turmeric and carrots), a fluffy texture, and a flavor that on its own seems a tad … sprouty? But folded into the Miles breakfast sandwich at vegan deli Orchard Grocer, it’s pretty close to what you’d…

The new MoMA will get rid of its strict timelines, its airless taxonomy of movements, and hang works from different eras, and different places, next to one another, in conversation. One art critic’s suggested pairings … HENRI MATISSE with CHRIS OFILI JACKSON POLLOCK with JULIE MEHRETU JASPER JOHNS with DAVID HAMMONS PABLO PICASSO with FAITH RINGGOLD…