New York Magazine – July 22, 2019

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86 New York
Crossword,
by Matt Gaffney
88 The Approval
Matrix

the culture pages

59

All Eyes on ‘Deck’

No one counted on a

man overboard in Bravo’s

real-life superyacht series

By Amy Odell

62

Not Looking for the

End of the World

Joseph Yoakum’s visions

from afar, in colored pencil

By Jerry Saltz

64

Why Films Look

So Cheesy on Your

Fancy New TV

The Hollywood pushback

against “motion smoothing”

By Bilge Ebiri

68

Batman’s Butler’s

Killer Past

An evolution of the Dark

Night’s faithful steward

By Abraham Riesman

70

Critics

tv by Matt Zoller Seitz

Offscreen drama on

HBO’s Big Little Lies

movies by David Edelstein

Suffer the children in

The Nightingale, from The

Babadook’s director,

and Syrian doc For Sama

76

To Do

Twenty-five

picks for the

next two

weeks

intelligencer

9
Things
The purses problem
By Lisa Miller

12
71 Minutes With ...
Andrea Catsimatidis,
heiress and local
GOP chair, on the limits
of ideological purity
By Olivia Nuzzi

strategist

43
Best Bets
Low-cost tricks
for tricking out a loft

49
Look Book
Surfers talk dolphins
and wetsuits
on the Rockaways

52
Food
Platt on the Fulton;
fusion pastrami sandos;
a cookie empire
expands to the East Side

july 22–august 4, 2019

this page:
Thembi Hanify,
29, a surfer at
Beach 69th Street
on the Rockaways
(see p.49).
Photograph by
Kyle Dorosz for
New York
Magazine.

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