‘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