Innholdsfortegnelse for October 6-19, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Ben Terris profiled Kristi Noem and her top aide, Corey Lewandowski, the duo running President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (“Top Goon,” September 22–October 5). Commenter nmakhno wrote, “From Mussolini to Saddam, fascist and fascism-adjacent regimes are riddled with graft, ineptitude and venomous infighting and rarely get around to making the trains run on time. This account of morbid drama among our reigning criminal psychopaths is perversely encouraging. In the face of some unprecedented catastrophe—economic collapse, a huge military blunder, fill in the blank—the entire s**theap could collapse.” Otter agreed: “I read this whole thing thinking ‘karma, karma, karma, karma.’ ” On X, Democratic campaign spokesperson James Singer wondered, “Why is a not Senate confirmed individual who has ‘been accused of receiving $50,000…

ONCE YOU’VE INTERVIEWED as many people as Susan Orlean has, you start to crave what she calls “counterprogramming.” Every magazine profile has its setting; every setting suggests activities that a journalist might find logical to do with their subject. In New York City, driving is not one of those. Which is why right after I meet Orlean in Soho, she gets behind the wheel of a borrowed car, installs me in the passenger seat, and heads directly for the Holland Tunnel. The writer, 69, lives in Los Angeles, but when she lived in Manhattan in the ’80s, she had two cars, one of them parked on the street—which meant she spent a lot of time hurrying up the sidewalk to check on it, craning her neck to see if this…

JULIA WISE, a mother of three in Boston, published an essay last February that articulated a new kind of parenting anxiety. Titled “Raising Children on the Eve of AI,” it set out to answer a pressing question that no bestselling child-rearing gurus had asked. “I feel a bit like we’re preparing children to be good blacksmiths or shoemakers in 1750 when the factory is coming,” she wrote. “The families around us are still very much focused on the track of do well in school get into a good college have a career have a nice life.” That reality, she suggested, would expire within her children’s lifetimes. Wise and her husband, Jeff, think about this stuff a lot. They are part of a community, the Effective Altruists, that has spent years…

➸ WHEN DESIGNER Elijah Roth, the founder of Certain Rain studio, received his first order for a Netto Lamp ($499) in April 2024, he got to work in his bedroom, laying out eight laser-cut aluminum panels on his desk and then fitting them around a 3-D-printed light diffuser, sort of like an advanced LEGO project. Roth then polished the lamp with an orbital sander. Since moving into a studio space, he still makes each lamp by hand, and the Netto has developed a niche fan base. Strategist writer Erin Schwartz spotted one at Benthos (99 Canal St.), a vintage-clothing shop in Chinatown, and was so taken with its rounded edges and stark angles that they asked the owner where it was from. Then they noticed the lamp again at Komune…

HARRIS DICKINSON’S DAY JOB is being John Lennon. The actor has spent the better part of the past year rehearsing for Sam Mendes’s four-part Beatles biopic, expected in theaters in 2028. Occasionally, though, Dickinson, 29, plays hooky from the band to nurture his side hustle as writer and director. “The odd day off feels naughty,” he tells me on a recent Monday morning, “like I’ve got a sick day from school.” Urchin, his first feature film, will premier that evening in London, and he’s a bit jumpy as he rummages through the cabinets of his office in search of coffee and tea accoutrements. Now that he mentions it, he does sort of look like an errant schoolboy, the hood of his gray sweatshirt pulled up over his head, its cord…

RAGTIME is at Lincoln Center through January 4. JOSHUA HENRY IS a vocal powerhouse. The 41-year-old earned Tony nominations for his roles in 2010’s The Scottsboro Boys and the 2018 Carousel revival. (“He’s an extraordinary Billy, hulking and hurting, unafraid of delving into the character’s ugliness and tackling his moody songs with both force and grace,” our critic Sara Holdren wrote about the latter part.) Now, Henry’s playing another down-on-his-luck turn-of-the-century character, Coalhouse Walker Jr., in the Ragtime revival directed by Lear deBessonet. Coalhouse, an optimistic piano player, is put through a Job-like list of trials over the course of the show, culminating in his 11 o’clock number, “Make Them Hear You.” The part’s vocal range goes from a low G to a high A2. “It’s one of the rangiest…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch Mr. Scorsese A dive into our greatest living filmmaker. Apple TV+, October 17. Director Rebecca Miller’s five-part docuseries gives Martin Scorsese, who’s won but a single Oscar, the thorough portrait he deserves. It meticulously traces the director’s decades of influencing cinema worldwide with his explorations of America’s deadly and competitive nature and includes interviews with an array of his collaborators, from actors Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio to creative partners Thelma Schoonmaker and Robbie Robertson. ROXANA HADADI ART 2. See Robert Longo A gallery takeover. Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street; through October 25. Filling four floors of the Pace Gallery fortress means a lot of Longo. The first floor tells you what you need to know.…

YOU HAVE TO help me understand,” a friend emailed recently. We’d run into each other at Dolores, the Bed-Stuy taqueria that routinely quotes two-to-four-hour waits. On weekends, it’s hard to secure even the rickety garden chairs on the sidewalk for drinks, and it took me over an hour to find a spot at the bar wide enough to set a napkin. “Is this normal now? Is it a TikTok thing?” my friend wrote. “HELP!!!!” Why is Dolores the spot of the moment? It has a modish, kitschy-cute look and comes from the team behind Winona’s, a wine bar–small platery with a durable following. It might be these bona fides, or it might be something else: Right now, the town’s gone taco. A number of new Mexican places have opened their…

YOU SQUIRMED IN your seat at his dinner parties, twelve years old, sixteen years old, nineteen years old, twenty-four years old, thirty-one years old, forty-two years old, outwardly giggling at the Total Rewrite, receiving their winks and side glances at what a sassy monkey you are—What a handful!—while his dinner table or barstool audiences looked back at him, eyes glittery. “Good night, Jim. Good to see you! Take care!” And they shake his hand and head out into the night. You’re so proud to be his punch line that you collect all the crumpled napkins, empty the ashtrays, giving yourself a moment to walk off the walloping sting of having been so egregiously mischaracterized, like a midfielder shaking off a ground ball that caught him in the shin, and then,…

On the last night of New York Fashion Week, in September, Wendy Williams, the former talk-show host and onetime gossip queen of New York, given permission to leave the locked floor of her assisted-living facility, where she is held against her will, was seated in the front row of designer LaQuan Smith’s runway show, showing the world just how well she was doing. She was polished up in long lashes, makeup perfectly set, dirty-blonde hair in smooth, loose waves. Smith had dressed her in a cropped black-and-white fur jacket over black shorts and fishnet stockings. Williams, 61, had begun reappearing in public early this year after a long stretch of silence: In 2022, she was placed under court-appointed guardianship; then, last year, her guardian announced that the star had dementia,…

IT’S A FAST-MOVING runway season with new designers at Chanel and Dior, among other houses, and in Milan last month, Miuccia Prada and her co–creative director, Raf Simons, seized the moment to be more contrarian than usual. Their show opened with two ordinary work uniforms, like the kind UPS drivers wear, before the clothing shapes began to break up and recompose themselves into new forms. A top that suggested a bra was a mere flutter of fabric and certainly useless as a bra. More curious still was a soft knee-length skirt suspended from the shoulders on two long, thin straps. Although Prada and Simons added underlayers, like bras and uniform shirts, the cut of the skirt nonetheless left a large void at the center of the body. The designers said…

MERIEM BENNANI AND ORIAN YANI BARKI Bouchra filmmakers, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Lower East Side So Bouchra is an animated movie about a queer coyote who comes out to her cardiologist mother? ORIAN: It’s a film about a mother-daughter relationship. It’s using real conversations that Meriem had with her mom, recorded by someone else. And it’s about love and acceptance and daughterhood and diaspora. How’d the screening go? MERIEM: New York is home, so we have a lot of friends and family here—everyone was just very enthusiastic. We had a bit of a biased audience today, but it was amazing. Did you coordinate your outfits? ORIAN: I’m wearing a blazer that belongs to Meriem—a lot of my outfits are things that belong to Meriem. MERIEM: Well, it was hot today. I was…

TRIBECA’S NEWEST grocery store, Meadow Lane (355 Greenwich St.; meadowlane.nyc), has everything its neighbors might desire: dog treats made from dehydrated bone broth. Hanger-steak breakfast burritos. A smoothie bar. Pacifying interiors of light wood and chocolate-brown tile. Custom gelato flavors from Caffè Panna. Grapes from Japan. Meadow Lane also has had one of the most protracted and well-documented opening sagas in recent history. “No one wants this to open more than me,” says the store’s founder, Sammy Nussdorf. Now— 430-plus days, several permitting snafus, and roughly 700 TikTok posts into this endeavor—he says he is making final preparations to unlock the doors after passing a Con Ed inspection and getting the gas turned on. The 28-year-old has been posting through it all as @brokebackcontessa, amassing more than 126,000 followers by documenting…