Features
When 37-year-old Marissa Mayer bolted Google for Yahoo, she became the first Fortune 500 CEO to take the top job while pregnant. Can a shrewd, ambitious, and glamorous woman with a newborn baby boy really have it all? And even if she can, is that a good thing for working women? By Lisa Miller
Hudson Yards, Manhattan’s largest remaining chunk of emptiness, is about to become the city’s most massive real-estate development. An exclusive look at a private city within the city. By Justin Davidson
New York’s most preposterously expensive new building, One57, is a still-in-construction 90-story tower with drop-dead views of Central Park. A stunning trophy for a member of the global elite? Certainly. But will anyone actually live there? By Matthew Shaer
Intelligencer
The book proposal Lena Dunham shopped last week accelerated a transformation already under way.
Why a shady production should give Broadway romantics hope.
The dynasty’s forgotten kick-starter.
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Times hire wins fans.
The great smartphone-patent war rages on, as Samsung, loser of the last battle, has now sued Apple, saying the iPhone 5 cribs from its products.
On a (semi-ironic, semi-essentialist) “dosa hunt” with the Stereogum music nut, Das Racist M.C., and their potato-and-onion-loving pals.
Columns
At the debate in Denver, it finally happened—but Obama looked like the one who was shaken.
Strategist
A Robert Wilson chair, Chanel fine jewelry, and more new stuff in stores.
“I’ve changed my hair fives times this year. You don’t need a head full of hair to be beautiful.”
The New Brooklyn food mecca opens upscale tasting room Blanca.
Beautiful blue-black clusters of Concord grapes, heavy with juice, have arrived at Greenmarket.
Matthew Hyland and Roberto Patriarca team up to open Brooklyn Central in Park Slope.
"Beers, food, women, and jeeps" is the motto of the new Filipino gastropub Jeepney.
The second branch of Queens-based Han Joo opens on St. Marks Place.
A Jersey noodle lab attempts to corner the New York market.
Culture
Is Sarah Sokolovic theater’s next great actress?
An artist treks almost 1,200 miles on land and water, from Warsaw to Paris, and gets it all on video.
Ben Affleck mashes up political thrills with movie-business satire in Argo.
Graphic novelist Chris Ware sends print-media fetishists an early holiday present.
Last Resort, Nashville, and The Mindy Project are the fall’s best new shows.
Agenda
Williamsburg microchocolatier Mast Brothers expands to South Street Seaport.
Departments
Readers sound off on Grizzly Bear, election polls, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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