Indholdsfortegnelse for September 8-21, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Reeves Wiedeman wrote about how the Kennedy clan is reckoning with its rogue relation Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (“Hijacking the Kennedys,” August 25-September 7). Some readers expressed sadness at a tattered legacy. Mary Grace said on Bluesky, “Younger generations will not remember, but the Kennedys were a powerful and respected presence in American politics as I was growing up. It is a shame that RFK Jr. carries his father’s name.” Peg Manley tweeted, “I am a Kennedy cousin on my grandfather’s side. I’ve always been extremely proud of my heritage. Now, I’m glad the older generation isn’t watching the shittiest one ever to live tear it all down.” On CNN’s Inside Politics, Wiedeman noted of large extended families’ dynamics, “You don’t talk to…

THE HOUSE THAT MAYHEM BUILT is a fifth-floor penthouse in Tribeca. Finding it was a labor of love for Dean Winters, who arrives on bicycle after getting his will notarized. The 61-year-old actor explains that there were three qualities he sought: outdoor space, a wood-burning fireplace, and an elevator that opened into the apartment. “I was being a real princess,” he says. He looked at 114 apartments over the course of four years before discovering this one. Today, it’s getting a proper face-lift. Winters introduces me to the contractors, Cesar and Oscar, working on his guest room. They are the first two of the roughly 25 people I will meet in the course of an afternoon hanging out with him. In 30 years of acting onscreen, Winters has tended to…

NICOLE AND NATALIE JALLIM Sophomores, Parkchester It’s nice of you to volunteer to help today. Do you live on campus? NATALIE: We commute from home. I think it’s a good balance. We’re like ten minutes away by car, so it feels like I’m dorming at this point, and I don’t have to share a bathroom. It’s lovely. Do you take classes together? NICOLE: Yes. Everyone thinks we do it because we’re twins, but we’re both computer-science majors. And if there’s a teacher who has amazing ratings, why would I want to take a class from a teacher with bad ratings? Who’s going to jeopardize themselves like that? And also our mom drives us to school, so we’re not going to Fordham multiple times a day to take one class early…

FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, Brooklyn-by-way-of-everywhere trio Big Thief have put out cosmic indie-rock albums to near-universal acclaim. Live, the band departs unexpectedly from the studio script, and performances of the same songs can turn out very different on a given night. During a ten-minute performance of “Not” at the Netherlands festival Best Kept Secret in 2022, singer-guitarist Adrianne Lenker forgets the lyrics early on, and drummer James Krivchenia begins to chant the missing words like a mantra. The verse resumes, and the band soldiers on, Lenker’s perseverant guitar solo howling with the weary relief of a shipwrecked sailor spotting land. It’s these precarious expeditions, where no one fully knows what will happen next, that drive this outfit creatively, they tell me over two recent conversations. “I don’t want to…

AUG. Art Music Box Theatre, 8/28 James Corden, Bobby Cannavale, and Neil Patrick Harris star in a play about a friendship torn apart over the purchase of a minimalist painting. The Brothers Size The Shed, 8/30 Brothers in the South find their way after one is incarcerated, in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play, led by André Holland. SEP. The Wild Duck Theatre for a New Audience, 9/2 Alexander Hurt plays Gregers Werle in Ibsen’s rarely seen tragicomedy, adapted by David Eldridge. Punch Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 9/9 Based on Jacob Dunne’s memoir about his imprisonment and a search for forgiveness after he punches a man, inadvertently killing him. The Other Americans Public Theater, 9/11 The prolific John Leguizamo writes and stars in a drama about a struggling laundromat owner in Queens.…

A NUMBER OF THIS fall’s biggest books are unusually long. They’re coming in at as many as 1,232 pages in the case of House of Leaves author Mark Z. Danielewski’s sweeping Tom’s Crossing (10/28), which is about two friends saving horses from slaughter in 1980s Utah. The translated novel Schattenfroh (9/9), by Michael Lentz, described by one German reviewer as “a genius, insane, dark or ridiculous book before which one can only helplessly surrender,” is just over 1,000. Adam Johnson’s Tongan historical novel The Wayfinder (10/14) and Kiran Desai’s continent-hopping saga The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (9/23), her first book in almost 20 years, are both around 700. Begin relengthening your attention span now.…

Silent Hill f 9/25 Konami’s survival-horror series is finally heading home to Japan with its first mainline game in over a decade. Ghost of Yotei 10/2 The follow-up to 2020’s Game of the Year nominee Ghost of Tsushima trades its titular island for the Japanese mountain Yotei. Pokémon Legends: Z-A 10/16 The second entry in the Legends series, swapping the past for the future, is set in the Paris-inspired Lumiose City as it undertakes an “urban redevelopment.” The Outer Worlds 2 10/24 This sequel is set in the same alternate future in which Theodore Roosevelt never broke up America’s monopolies, allowing megacorporations to take over the world, then the outer reaches of the universe. Seems like quite a stretch, no? Cairn 11/5 This new game is about a mountaineer attempting…

TARIQ HABASH COULD not eat, and later he could not sleep. It was October 7, 2023, and like many Palestinian Americans, his horror at the violence committed by Hamas that day was quickly met by fear—frenetic and queasy—about Israel’s certain retaliation. Collective punishment had been the country’s de facto policy in Gaza for years; now it had suffered the greatest loss of civilian life since its founding, and its belligerent leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, had been humiliated. Habash kept asking himself, What is about to happen? But he knew. On Monday, he went to work—at the United States Department of Education—the lone Palestinian appointee in the agency. He’d spent the previous three years working 12-hour days trying to make American education more affordable. Over the next few weeks, he watched as…

In the winter of 2017, Lee Hammock was at home in Durham, North Carolina, spending the evening blaming his failures and unrealized potential on his 7-month-old son. Hammock has an engineering degree, but, at 32, he was working on the floor in a warehouse. And what he actually wanted to be was an actor. As his son lay on the floor sobbing, Hammock told him, “See? This is why I’m not successful.” Hammock’s wife, Delaney, happened to walk in at that exact moment. She was appalled, which he considered another perfect example of how his family was holding him back. He shouted at her until she stormed out. She yelled from the doorway, “It’s so hard living with a narcissist!” Later, Hammock Googled the word and found the symptoms for…

When the world drops out fromunder us, we turn to intangible sources of certainty: God, if you believe, or the universe, or tarot cards, or some high-vibrational being who can divine a murky future. For Lizzo, that’s Wendy, a psychic medium who works out of a squat lavender-painted building in the Valley. Lizzo started getting regular readings from her five years ago, just as her career exploded. There’s no negativity in Wendy’s sessions, Lizzo explains as we make our way through the sage-scented, labyrinthine hallways of Pure Heart Collective psychic salon, pausing so two “angel assistants” can show off the Sailor Moon knee socks they’re wearing in her honor. “It’s all love and light,” she says. Today, on a perfect late-April afternoon in the backyard of Wendy’s salon, it really…

ONE SOMETIMES gets the feeling, when wandering through the shopping hubs of Soho, the Upper East Side, and Williamsburg, that the only things to buy are beige leggings and an iced matcha. But as we surveyed fall’s new stores, we noticed that a lot of them are refreshingly strange and, in their specificity, reminiscent of the city’s retail scene of yore, whether it’s a concept shop the owner describes as “rococo meets Trash and Vaudeville,” or a midwife-owned boutique that sells Plan B alongside Le Bon Shoppe pants, or a showroom with furniture sourced from Facebook Marketplace, or a streetwear shop that’s hosting an Eminem “Stan” look-alike contest, or a luxury flagship with miniature cloches lining the walls and animatronic bees in the window. PLUS: BABBO’S RETURN, FLYNN MCGARRY’S PIVOT,…

“CAN YOU HEAR this sound?” Sabrina Impacciatore asks, holding up her laptop on a summery succulent-filled patio. “It’s the crickets singing. They sing all day long. It’s incredible.” The eternally enthusiastic Italian actress is at her escape on the island of Formentera—near Ibiza, she explains, gesticulating wildly as she maps the Mediterranean for me with her hands—taking some time to recharge amid her increasingly busy schedule. She’s well known in her home country, where she first started acting as a teenager on variety shows before segueing into comedic and dramatic roles in film and on television. But after nabbing the part of the stern hotel manager Valentina in the second season of The White Lotus (2022), Impacciatore was launched into fame in Hollywood. “It was like in Italy when the…

FOLLOWING UP ONE of the most Emmy-winning shows of the past decade is daunting, which might explain why Succession’s main cast has mostly stuck to film and theater since the series ended in May 2023. That will change this fall when Mr. and Mrs. Shiv Roy both return to TV in lead roles on the same day (11/6). Matthew Macfadyen steps back into period garb to play 19th-century presidential assassin Charles Guiteau opposite Michael Shannon’s James Garfield in the Netflix limited series Death by Lightning, based on the acclaimed nonfiction best seller Destiny of the Republic. And in Peacock’s All Her Fault, a modern suburban-thriller series based on the Andrea Mara novel, Sarah Snook plays a woman facing “every parent’s worst nightmare” when her young son mysteriously disappears. Arian Moayed…

THE CHARACTERS IN It Was Just an Accident (10/15), the heartsick new Jafar Panahi film that won this year’s Palme d’Or, are a collection of political prisoners who may have ran afoul of the Iranian regime once but are now just trying, however brokenly, tosettle into something resembling a normal life. In that sense, they’re part of a larger crowd of disillusioned or exhausted dissidents from around the world this season that includes a spectacular Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent (12/5), who plays a widowed man who goes on the run after clashing with an official during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the ’70s, and Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another (9/26), starring as a one-time hippie revolutionary. Uniting these characters is the upsetting truth that you don’t really…

SEP. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation, by Elizabeth Gilbert 9/9 In her first nonfiction book since 2015’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, the bestselling Eat, Pray, Love memoirist recounts her relationship with Rayya Elias, her close friend of many years who became her romantic partner after Elias was diagnosed with cancer. The Wilderness, by Angela Flournoy 9/16 The Turner House author’s second novel gets slightly futuristic as it traces the relationships among five Black women from roughly 2008 to 2027. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai 9/23 Does absence make the heart grow fonder? The Booker Prize winner’s first novel since 2006’s The Inheritance of Loss is an epic about two Indian families and their artsy Gen-X children.…