Innholdsfortegnelse for September 26-October 9 , 2022 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Andrew Rice and Olivia Nuzzi investigated the origins of a certain MacBook (“What the Right Found on Hunter Biden’s Laptop,” September 12–25). Megyn Kelly Show executive producer Steve Krakauer called it “meticulous, comprehensive, and insanely interesting.” The New York Times’ Kenneth P. Vogel wrote that the story “raised tricky questions about social media suppression, digital custody chains, disinformation claims & the press’s handling of the above. But it also shows just how thoroughly one person’s life can be exposed by their data.” For Fox News, Brian Flood noted that “New York Magazine is the latest mainstream media outlet to take Hunter Biden’s scandalous laptop seriously” after the device’s contents were initially “dismissed as unreliable and even Russian disinformation by mainstream print and television…

OFFICE-BOUND, I had company. In the humid wedge of a revolving door, a guest had pushed in with me. He (I think “he,” though I didn’t turn him over to check for the female’s telltale red valvifers at the distal end of the abdomen) froze when he sensed I saw him, playing dead. It was an uncomfortable moment. Was the security guard staring? My passenger, all one inch of him, was a Lycorma delicatula, a spotted lanternfly. If you’ve spent any time at ground level, you know the type. We’re crawling with them. They are new(ish) New Yorkers, your flighty, frustrating neighbors. Like novices, out-of-towners, they go slowly, clogging the pavement. You roll your eyes, tap a foot to clear a path—nothing. You could kill them. The City of New…

IT WASN’T ALWAYS this way. We were not so often the headline. Our elders’ safety was not a cause célèbre. We weren’t even sure that we were a “we”—can so many people with so little in common say that? Still, there were a few shared things. Cooking ingredients, tropes we were sick of. And when the attacks first started in early 2020, we found we shared another: a terrible feeling of dread. ¶ Some days it feels like hate crimes created Asian America. Our loosely tied demographic was sloshing in the mainstream without political heft until Trump’s “China Virus” hysteria lumped us all together. You didn’t have to look or be Chinese to feel the ground shift. For the most privileged of Asians, the surge in violence and casual racism…

HERE IS A SAMPLE of the questions Cathy Park Hong has been asked in the past two years. Asian people want to know what they should do when they are microaggressed: “What should I say to someone who says, ‘Where do you come from?’” White people ask her how to be a better ally: “What do I do if I witness a microaggression against one of my co-workers who is Asian American?” Podcast hosts ask her what it means for Asian history to be erased in America. Once, when she was giving a talk in Korea, a college student came up to the mic during the Q&A. “My mother is super-toxic,” the student told Hong. “I don’t know how to make her understand my identity as a queer person. What…

It only takes a few years. An economic catastrophe brings on the partial collapse of American society. As the nation recovers, an ascendant right wing blames the crisis on China. In the years following, the United States is rebuilt as an authoritarian nation under the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act, colloquially known as PACT, an expansive law that allows the government to ban books, monitor private citizens, and disappear political dissidents, all in the name of preventing the spread of un-American views, a category that grows broader by the month: “Appearing sympathetic to China. Appearing insufficiently anti-China. Having any doubts about anything American; having any ties to China at all—no matter how many generations past.” This is fiction, obviously, even as it clearly brings to mind Japanese incarceration and…

RASHI MITCHELL Marketer, Park Slope Was it intimidating? Yes, because I’m usually really shy. I was just focused on making it from one side of the room to the other. But since I moved to New York from Atlanta a year ago, I’ve become a lot more personable and open to new experiences. Speed dating would have been an Atlanta “no,” but it’s a New York “yes.” How’d it go? Really well. I met this woman, Wagaye. I’d noticed her right away because of her hair. She had a curly Afro that just stood out. And then when I saw her face, I was like, Wow, she’s gorgeous. When we talked, she told me she was from Florida but then moved to South Dakota. We both laughed about that because…

THE FURROWS: AN ELEGY BY NAMWALI SERPELL. HOGARTH/PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE. PAUSE, FOR A MOMENT, and furrow your brow. Take a glance in the mirror. Notice how this wrinkling was created by two lines, perhaps similar in appearance but certainly not identical. And yet, when the two brows converge, they reach the same destination: the dead center of your forehead. To furrow is to fold two paths into each other until they are one; in other words, to furrow is to accept fate. This is precisely the premise of Namwali Serpell’s provocative second novel. The first half of The Furrows: An Elegy follows C, a young biracial girl in Baltimore who witnesses the death of her younger brother, Wayne, when she is 12 years old. The plot is seemingly simple, yet…

SEPTEMBER 28–OCTOBER 12 TV 1. Watch Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester A former talk-show host speaks. Netflix, October 4. The newest Netflix special from Hasan Minhaj is a supremely crafted piece of funny, sometimes touching stand-up in which Minhaj reflects on his upbringing, becoming a father, and what it was like to address dicey subject matter for six seasons as host of Netflix’s Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj. JEN CHANEY MUSIC 2. See Pavement Not strangers, still spitting. Kings Theatre, September 30 through October 3. In the decade between their 1989 debut EP, Slay Tracks, and their finale, Terror Twilight, California indie-rock veterans Pavement logged a handful of classic albums before disbanding just a few years ahead of the explosion of interest in indie bands. This reunion tour, only their…

This article is a collaboration between New York Magazine and The Verge. FOR 72 HOURS after it happened, Brian n Chin hardly left the building. He didn’t sleep. He didn’t eat. He had arrived at 111 Chrystie, the 23-unit apartment complex his family owns in the heart of Chinatown, at a little before 6 a.m. on February 13 after getting a call from one of his tenants. It was a chaotic scene: The street in front of the building was blocked off, NYPD squad cars and officers everywhere. The police let Chin inside, but no one would tell him what was going on. Outside, the sky was black. Snow was lightly falling. Inside, an alarm blared through the building until a cop took a sledgehammer and silenced it. Finally, an…

LAST YEAR, I VISITED a relative’s house in New Jersey. He and his wife grew up in Bangalore, and a recent kitchen renovation set the stage for the reveal of a larger transformation that had been quietly underway for years. They detailed the many moves that had gone into building their ideal pantry, spice routes forged with relatives back in India, tireless expeditions to local Indo-Pak grocery stores until the choicest brands and items had been identified through trial and error, the studied deployment of an Instant Pot in such military action that fresh yogurt and ghee were always on hand, not to mention dal and rice. As I took in this simulation—a Bangalore kitchen, painstakingly re-created—I felt a twinge of anxiety. It seemed improbable that I’d ever meet someone…

➸ WHEN IT COMES to food storage, Pyrex has perfected the form. Strategist writer Emma Wartzman spoke to a wide swath of kitchen experts who agree the brand’s glass containers beat the competition on every level, from tight-fitting lid to remarkably unbreakable body. Recipe developer Jessie Sheehan says the receptacles stubbornly avoid absorbing the smells or colors of the food stored inside them, allowing her to keep chana masala in them one day and egg yolks left over from baking the next. They’re also dishwasher and microwave safe down to the lids, which makes them ideal for reheating. And they come in a myriad of sets, including mixing-bowl-slash–storage vessels (which Sheehan describes as “100 percent brilliant”) and a ten-piecer (Pyrex Glass Food Storage Container Set, $48), with options for saving…

NC-17 MOVIES / THE PODCAST RUT / ATHENA / CRITICS / TO DO KATE BERLANT WAS due onstage in 15 minutes. It was March 2019, and she was performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, where she often does an hourlong set of improvised stand-up. The crowd that night was full of die-hards glancing around in the hawkish way fans do when they know a lot about the person they’ve come to see. “That is her mom,” someone mouthed across the room as a statuesque, curly-haired woman in her 70s took her seat in the back. The comedian would soon shoot a special for FX that would crystallize her electric, unpredictable sets—which she rarely, if ever, puts online—before a national audience for the first time. The actor…

White Noise, Alice Tully Hall, Walter Reade Theater, and Francesca Beale Theater; September 30. Noah Baumbach adapts DeLillo but somehow creates a demented, long-lost Spielberg movie. Master Gardener, Alice Tully Hall; October 1 and 2. Paul Schrader’s latest tormented and lonely man is a former white supremacist who tries to be good after turning on his militia. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Alice Tully Hall; October 7. Laura Poitras’s Venice Golden Lion–winning doc watches photographer Nan Goldin expose the negatives of America’s opioid addiction. No Bears, Alice Tully Hall, Walter Reade Theater, and Francesca Beale Theater; October 9, 13, and 14. Jafar Panahi, an Iranian dissident stuck in his home country, tries to oversee filming across the border in Turkey—while a shocking drama unfolds right in front of him.…

ON a bleak St. Patrick’s Day in 2020, with holiday festivities canceled as COVID19 swept across the U.S., Lawrence Abrams sent messages to ten of the largest ransomware gangs in the world. Stop attacking hospitals and other medical facilities for the duration of the pandemic, he pleaded. Too many lives were at stake. As the founder and owner of the most influential news website dedicated to ransomware, Abrams was one of the few people with the connections and credibility to make such a request. His site, Bleeping-Computer, was one part demilitarized zone, one part neighborhood pub: a place where victims, media, law enforcement, cybersecurity buffs, and criminals all mixed. Ransomware is one of the most pervasive and fastest-growing cybercrimes. Typically, the attackers capitalize on a cybersecurity flaw or get an…

ASIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS belong to the most economically divided racial group in America, and the need for child care often brings together members from the top and bottom of the ladder. White-collar Chinese Americans might employ care workers from the Philippines or China; Indian American families, among the wealthiest ethnic groups in the country, might hire domestic workers from Nepal, one the poorest countries in South Asia. Perhaps nowhere is the tension between the diverse experiences of being Asian American more evident than in these households. We spoke to four Asian immigrant nannies and au pairs (all of whom requested that we use pseudonyms) living in the New York area to find out how—if at all—their relationships with their employers changed over the past two years. NOVA, 48, nanny…

It’s not like they put a sign on your desk that reads “Diversity Hire.” You just know, with a certainty as deep as earliest experience, that your race played a role in the scouting, the interviewing, and the hiring. How much of a role you’ll never know. Did your race gild the lily of your impressive résumé? Or was it the cheat code that allowed you to catapult over candidates who were better? In 2022, when corporations, especially in the creative industries, are so eager to diversify their ranks, being Asian has become an asset of great value in the office. Sure, Asian people have problems, too. Horrible hate crimes were committed. The former president tried to blame COVID on the Chinese. As a result, there has been a tendency…

BEST OF NEW YORK For Copper Pans and Kunz Spoons JB PRINCE, 36 E. 31st St.; jbprince.com OVER THE YEARS, JB Prince has retained its reputation as the city’s go-to shop for serious cooks, in part, says Veranda chef George Mendes, for often being the first to stock ahead-of-the-curve products like sous-vide machines (when they were first introduced) and disposable bowls made of sugarcane (these days). This is essentially how the store started in 1977, when Judy Prince began importing molds, knives, and pasta-making equipment from Europe to sell out of her Brooklyn attic. Today, JB Prince is on the sixth floor of a midtown office building, where it remains a staple for chefs from Eleven Madison Park, Jean-Georges, and Atomix as well as for younger chefs like cookbook…

THE FICTIONALIZED MARILYN MONROE biopic Blonde is not just Netflix’s first original movie to be rated NC-17—it’s the first major narrative film bearing that warning to hit theaters in almost a decade. Most directors cut their movie until it gets an R or forgo a rating altogether; others own it. Here, a look at how some of the boldest NC-17s in history earned such notoriety. HENRY & JUNE, 1990 (Philip Kaufman) Two lesbian sex scenes, plus a glimpse of Hokusai’s famous erotic woodblock print The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. ➽ Box office: $11.5 million BAD LIEUTENANT, 1992 (Abel Ferrara) A nun is raped, crack and heroin are used, and Harvey Keitel shows his penis. ➽ Box office: $2 million WIDE SARGASSO SEA, 1993 (John Duigan) Seven sex scenes with…