The Magazine
November 18, 2024
Goings On
Goings On
Kacey Musgraves, Offbeat Pageant Princess
Also: Hilton Als on theatrical magic from David Cromer and Zoë Winters, Ralph Lemon at MOMA PS1, “A Real Pain” reviewed, and more.
The Food Scene
Quick, Affordable Sushi That’s Still a Cut Above
At Sendo, a Tokyo-style sushi-ya in midtown, the food’s level of sophistication well surpasses its price point.
The Talk of the Town
David Remnick on Trump’s victory; a pep talk at the White House; a clock master’s protest; Eve goes on book tour with Philly spirit.
Comment
It Can Happen Here
Everyone who realizes with proper alarm that Trump’s reëlection is a deeply dangerous moment in American life must think hard about where we are.
Pep Talk Dept.
The Morning After at the White House
A teary voter tours the People’s House and tries to find perspective in the relics of the “Honest and Wise Men” who came before.
Lost Causes
New York’s Clock Master to City Hall: Time’s Up!
Eighty-five-year-old Marvin Schneider and his seventy-four-year-old apprentice have staged a five-year-long protest against the landmarks commission over a famous clock tower.
The Musical Life
Eve’s Memoir, “Who’s That Girl?,” and Other Questions
The Philadelphia-born rapper on stage clothes (“Jumpsuit, bitch!”), the Diddy situation, and her run-ins with Questlove and Jay-Z. It’s a Philly thing.
Donald Trump, Reprised
Dispatches
2016 and 2024
We will be a fundamentally different country by the end of the next Administration. Indeed, we already are.
Dispatches
Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease
Our civic wells are poisoned. Why?
Dispatches
Dead Last
Authoritarian rule always entails corruption. With Donald Trump in office, watch your wallet.
Dispatches
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
Dispatches
How America Embraced Gender War
Both Trump’s and Harris’s campaigns framed the Presidential election as a contest between men and women. Did the results prove them right?
Dispatches
After Trump’s Reëlection, How Can Americans Rebuild a Common Life?
Visiting the site where the Civil War began, for clues on how the cold war of the present may end.
Dispatches
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Majority Could Easily Rule Through 2045
Democrats failed to make the Supreme Court itself a major campaign issue, but what comes after the Dobbs decision could very well be worse, and more far-reaching.
Dispatches
A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again
How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the Klan’s rule in Indiana.
Dispatches
Democrats Tried to Counter Donald Trump’s Viciousness Toward Women with Condescension
The Harris campaign felt the need to remind women voters that they can vote for whomever they want. Women understood this. The campaign failed to.
Dispatches
How Donald Trump, the Leader of White Grievance, Gained Among Hispanic Voters
In 2016, the idea that Trump was a cloaked white supremacist made him seem like a fringe character. What does it mean that his popularity has increased?
Dispatches
A Fourth-Rate Entertainer, a Third-Rate Businessman, and a Two-Time President
The 2024 election, like the one in 2016, had the same nutty and vapid Donald Trump, the same retrograde gender politics, and the same result.
Dispatches
Canvassing for Kamala
Going door-to-door in Pennsylvania felt intense and hopeful, but after Trump’s victory in the state a few encounters kept floating back.
Reporting & Essays
The Political Scene
The New Pro-Life Playbook
Under Trump, a new vision of conservative family policy is ascendant.
Onward and Upward with the Arts
The Intensely Colorful Work of a Painter Obsessed with Anime
In a London warehouse pumping with dance music and movie soundtracks, Jadé Fadojutimi paints exuberant canvases all night long.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
What’s Your Parenting-Failure Style?
Like to watch TikToks while your toddler eats a bagel from the subway floor? Take this quiz to determine how bad a mom or dad you really are.
Fiction
Fiction
“Heavy Snow”
I have made my way here at Inseon’s request. Because she said, I need you to go to my place in Jeju. If you don’t, she’ll die.
The Critics
The Art World
The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
The art endures partly because it’s rooted in the moment—the surrender of one person to another.
A Critic at Large
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.
Books
A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era
In “Quarterlife,” Devika Rege uses three very different protagonists to explore the country’s ideological ferment—setting them first at play, then at war.
Books
Briefly Noted
“Kent State,” “How the New World Became Old,” “The Last Dream,” and “The Repeat Room.”
The Current Cinema
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point” Transcends the Holiday-Movie Genre
Tyler Thomas Taormina’s comedy drama about a Long Island family boasts some of the year’s sharpest characterizations and a strikingly original narrative form.
Poems
Cartoons
Puzzles & Games
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