Muhammad Comes to Manhattan
The imbroglio over the ground-zero mosque, like all New York stories, is about the clashing dreams of ordinary folks — and, of course, real estate. #Sept11
The Cuomo Family Business
Andrew Cuomo was his father’s id, aggressive where Mario was cerebral—the muscle that helped win Mario three terms as governor of New York. Now he looks like he’s about to take over his father’s old job. Has he learned enough from both of their mistakes?
The James Franco Project
Movie star, conceptual artist, fiction writer, grad student, cipher—he’s turned a Hollywood career into an elaborate piece of performance art. But does it mean anything? A critical investigation, with bathroom break.
All Joy and No Fun
Why parents hate parenting.
Bernie Madoff, Free at Last
In prison he doesn’t have to hide his lack of conscience. In fact, he’s a hero for it.
The Leap
[Not single-page] Next week, Teddy Graubard would have graduated from Dalton — a brilliant teenager, with a mild form of Asperger’s, whose path seemed almost limitless. So what led him to the window?
Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny
It’s the rest of the world that sometimes forgot. “Expect nothing and you won’t be disappointed. This is the mantra of the pessimist and the persecuted alike, the preemptive strike of those who tend to paint the picture a little blacker than it is. And then there is Joan Rivers, the orneriest creature ever to darken Hollywood’s door. She once told me that her husband, Edgar Rosenberg, who killed himself in 1987, lived by the heartwarming motto ‘Fuck them over before they fuck you over first.'”
Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus
[Not single-page] Psychoanalyzing one of America’s most dysfunctional relationships.
Boss Kelly
The long-serving NYPD commissioner is autocratic, dismissive of civil-liberties concerns — and effective. Is that a reasonable trade-off to keep the city safe?
Uniqlones
[Not single-page] Seemingly out of nowhere, their cheap, skinny rainbow-colored basics became a kind of New York uniform. Just how did the Japanese discount brand become the hottest retailer in the city?