New York Magazine - USA (2019-11-25)

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130 NewYorkCrossword,
byMatt Gaffney
132 TheApprovalMatrix
the culture pages
95
Alexa, Break
Our Hearts
The rise of Alexa
Demie on Waves
and Euphoria
By Hunter Harris
100
American Is a
Snarling Dog
Hellscapes on
cardboard
from Bill Traylor
By Jerry Saltz
102
Reunited,and
It Feels So Good
Communityand
PartyDown,together
againatVultureFest
106
LauraDern Doesn’t
NeedOurApproval
Awarding
Vulture’sfirst-ever
honorary degree
ByBilgeEbiri
108
Critics
theaterby
HelenShaw
TheInheritance
wobblesunder
itsweight
moviesby
DavidEdelstein
NoahBaumbach’s
divorcestorybubbles
tothesurface
ofMarriageStory
popby
CraigJenkins
FKATwigs’s new
sirensongs
120
ToDo
Twenty-fivepicksfor
thenexttwoweeks
intelligencer
21
The National Interest
Following the
president’s orders
By Jonathan Chait
24
From the Cut
Taking the temperature
of sexism in the
Democratic primary
26
The Swamp
“You have one
newmessage from...
RudyGiuliani”
ByOliviaNuzzi
strategist
69
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on the cover:
Kim Kardashian West.
Photograph by Ruven
Afanador for New York
Magazine. this page:
D’Arcy Carden at Vulture
Festival 2019. Photograph
by Landon Nordeman
for New York Magazine.
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