Features
When Nora Ephron died of cancer in June, it caught nearly everyone—many of her closest friends included—completely off-guard. Ephron had always made her life an open book. So why did she decide to hide her illness? By Frank Rich
Barclays Center opens in Brooklyn on September 28 with eight sold-out Jay-Z concerts, a middling basketball team, and a lot of super-premium branding. Will that be enough to make it a success? By Will Leitch
Two decades ago, conservatives howled that Hollywood was engaged in a propaganda campaign to spread liberal values across America. For better or worse, they were exactly right. By Jonathan Chait
The residents of Prattsville, a Catskills town of 700, were used to riding out floods. But when Hurricane Irene hit a year ago, they were faced with a deluge like they’d never seen. By Josh Dean
Intelligencer
His campaign e-mail subject lines, selectively excerpted, show a candidate who, though ahead in the polls, is still straining to recapture the old spark.
Jennifer Aniston’s strange run as America’s favorite spinster next door.
Shrug, shrug, shrug at the home team.
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Precedents for Ryan-ab intrigue.
At a Hello Kitty emporium with Oakland’s semi-Harajuku YouTube rap sensation.
Strategist
Fifty-one proprietors on the new merch they're most excited to carry.
Newfangled mid-century Italian on Thompson Street.
Boozy cinemas, baroque nightclubs, and other wee-hour enabler.
Culture
A reformed naïf smites nonbelievers in The Master.
Pop’s nerviest duo indulge their horn-filled fantasies while there’s still a music business to bankroll them.
The sunny Katie Finneran finds her inner Harridan for Annie.
The onetime literary “it” kid is still writing like he’s got something to prove. but with his new collection, he’s also got a few things he’d like to tell his swaggering teenage self.
At 88, with a Whitney retrospective ahead, what is the last great minimalist doing? Simplifying his own life.
His celebrated opera The Tempest finally washes up on our island.
Agenda
Dorie Greenspan is opening retail bakery Beurre & Sel.
Departments
Readers sound off on Kim Kardashian, Jane Pratt, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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