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january 316, 2022

the culture pages

55

The Protégé

NovelistSeanThor

Conroeis noFuccboi

By Molly Osberg

58

Joan Didion’s Greatest

Two-Word Sentence

Lessonsinobserving

froma deliberatedistance

By Molly Fischer

60

TheFuture’s

Not All Bad

45 events to look

forward to in 2022

64

Afterlife of an Artifact

Gala Porras-Kim’s

photorealisticdrawings

ofancientrelics

By Max Pearl

66

Critics

movies by

Bilge Ebiri

The aggressive

mediocrity of

Spider-Man:

NoWayHome

podcastsby

NicholasQuah

Operator gives the

phone-sex industry

aWolfof Wall

Streettreatment

tvby en Chaney J

Station Eleven

is a profound

viewing experience

70

To Do

Twenty-five picks

for the next two weeks

intelligencer

6

The National

Interest

HowJanuary 6

birtheda newright

By Jonathan Chait

8

The Group

Portrait

For the first time,

a majority-women

CityCouncil

By Valeria Ricciulli

10

86 Minutes With ...

On- and offscreen

bibliophile Peter

Sarsgaard

By Katja Vujic

12

The Money Game

How I became

anaccidental

crypto-savant

By Anonymous

strategist

41

Where to Eat 2022

A survey of the very

best new restaurants

New York has to offer.

Plus: Adam Platt

on professional

eating throughout

a pandemic.