ON THE COVER
‘Tomorrow’ Never Dies
Annie, Mitt, Honey Boo Boo bring comfort to melancholy multitudes
By Daniel D’Addario
EDITORIALS
Midtown, Reimagined; De Blasio’s Bad Idea; and Bright Ideas
COLUMNS
Shrinking Brain: The Bad Old Days
By Kevin Baker
The Bombshell: Junot Díaz is #WINNING
By Nina Burleigh
Shindigger: Let Him Sing Forever More
By Jonah Wolf
Mothers Superior: Mary Had a Little MetroCard
By Una LaMarche
FEATURES
Enter the Matrix
High-tech, high-rise data farm puts down roots in Lower Manhattan
By Daniel Geiger
Book ’em, Dunham!
Publishing’s new $3.7 M. woman needs Tina Fey-sized sales
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
King of All Digital Media
Code and Theory’s hunky honcho is the web designer du jour
By Drew Grant
Time Fades Away
In a baffling memoir, words fail Neil Young
By Michael Robbins
The Lena Dunham Book Proposal—Reviewed!
Because we are a total Shoshanna and just couldn’t help it
By Faye Penn
THE TRANSOM
The New Yorker on The New Yorker
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Gay Landmark Leveled
By Kim Velsey
Larry Silverstein, Critic
By Daniel Edward Rosen
Constructing Columbus
By Matt Chaban
BETABEAT
The P-Word
By Myles Tanzer
Holy Hops
By Jessica Roy
OMG DROP!
By Nitasha Tiku
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
Fast Money
By Kim Velsey
A Steal at $19 M.?
By Kim Velsey
The Village Gets Theoretical
By Kim Velsey
Hungering for Pleasantville
By Kim Velsey
OFF THE RECORD
Home for Wayward Hacks?
By Hunter Walker
WSJ’s New Real Estate
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
The Coffee Break Revolution
By Cynthia Cotts
ART & CULTURE
How to Screw Your Way to the Top
An artist brings her signature style to the New Museum
By Michael H. Miller
Giving Up the Ghost
A new biography gives a sobering view of David Foster Wallace
By Emily Witt
The Fall Harvest
Fall for Dance’s offerings were bountiful but uneven
By Robert Gottlieb
To Err is Divine
Entrenched in suburbia, a religious cold war sputters on
By Rex Reed
Affleck, Duck!
Ben’s real-life spy thriller is spooky good
By Rex Reed
Going to the Dogs
The once-masterful McDonagh stays bent on an ill-advised hiatus from theater
By Rex Reed
The Bellhop Rings Twice
Hardboiled throwback aims for nostalgia; result is a big sleep
By Rex Reed
From Brush and Palette to Printer and Cartridge
‘Picasso Black and White’ at the Guggenheim; Wade Guyton OS’ at the Whitney
By Maika Pollack
Spicy Meals Where Race Is the Main Course
Elia Alba broaches touchy topics over lamb and hummus
By Andrew Russeth
A Boogie Down Biennale
Holly Block is bringing the Bronx to Venice
By Rozalia Jovanovic
Douglas Hodge, From Z to C
His Zaza and now—God nose—his Cyrano are packed with panache
By Harry Haun
The Eight-Day Week
By Daniel D’Addario
GALLERISTNY
Welcome Home!
By Dan Duray
Burton, Back to the New
By Andrew Russeth
