New York Magazine

In the Apr. 15–28 issue: Olivia Nuzzi on “wonder boy” Pete Buttigieg. Plus: Art & Design, by Wendy Goodman; the half-billion dollar “Leonardo”; Natasha Lyonne, Annette Bening, and more.

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Are You Ready to Be Touched? • Reintroducing the thrill of casual physical contact.

Group Portrait: Black Queer Brooklyn Is Almost Reunited • And it feels so good.

Happy • Meditations on loneliness with a 50-year-old Elephas maximus.

The Pin Drop: Miami’s Little Manhattan • During the pandemic, many well-off New Yorkers fled to South Florida … and their favorite restaurants followed.

ABUSE AND POWER • Andrew Cuomo’s governorship has been defined by cruel behavior that disguised chronic mismanagement. Why was that celebrated for so long?

THE MAGIC MOLEKULE • There has never been a better business (or planetary) climate in which to sell a handsome and expensive product designed to calm and stoke your anxieties about dirty air.

THE CRIMINAL MINDS OF JIM AND TIM • The Clemente brothers left the FBI to become Hollywood’s go-to murder consultants. Now they’re rebooting the biggest franchise in true-crime TV: America’s Most Wanted.

HOW WILL WE REMEMBER THIS? • A COVID memorial will have to commemorate shame and failure as well as grief and bravery.

The COVID Memorial Project

A Cutlery Compendium

The Most-Registered-For on the Knot

Some Single Utensils to Supplement Your Set • Plus some particularly nice-looking plasticware.

The Angelika • For the first time in nearly a year, moviegoers came back to the theater—masked and seated apart.

THE LOOK BOOK: MOVIEGOERS AT THE ANGELIKA

Charles Gabriel’s Chicken Empire • With new investors, the Harlem legend plans a citywide chain.

Bánh Vietnamese Shop House

How This 1856 Chelsea Parlor-Floor Apartment Got Its Glamour Back • Architects Daniel Rauchwerger and Noam Dvir invented a new history for their fixer-upper.

Welcome to Yollywood • Everyone on YouTube is problematic—so of course there’s a whole economy built around judging them.

The Drama Queen • No one is keeping up with Trisha Paytas, YouTube’s most frighteningly entertaining star.

TEA-MZ • If you behave badly on YouTube, these people are watching.

The Receipt Keeper • D’Angelo Wallace always knows how to cut through the chaos.

The Character-Actor Power Couple • Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel are two of the most in-demand performers working today. They are also really cute together.

Read Like the Wind • Brain-electrifyingly good book recommendations.

WHY DON’T YOU …

Anything for You • In Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, artificial intelligence meets real sacrifice.

True Believers • Listening in as two icons talk about their problematic fave: America.

Royal Revisit • A sequel squeaks by with just enough gags and a lot of nostalgia.

To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

Of Women and Salt

THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.