New York Magazine: July 13, 2015 Issue

Table of Contents

July 13, 2015

Cover Story

The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Where some see great hope and much racial progress, Coates — whom Toni Morrison has called our James Baldwin — sees something else. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

On the Cover: Photograph by Lyle Ashton Harris

Features

Thank You for Not Using Me

The ban on plastic bags vs. the ban on bag bans.

By Adam Sternbergh
“Do You Know How Your Daughter Died?”

A court case in Qatar that became an international incident, and a domestic tragedy.

By Robert Kolker

Intelligencer

Culture

The Cut

Tradition: Stitch Craft

The women who make couture in Paris and Rome at work.

Departments

Strategist