New York Magazine: December 28, 2015 Issue

Table of Contents

December 28, 2015

Cover Story

The Bill de Blasio Revolution

The mayor’s challenge: to make himself a more popular populist. By Andrew Rice

On the Cover: Bill de Blasio. Photograph by Finlay MacKay/New York Magazine.

Features

In Conversation With Charlie Kaufman

The Anomalisa director on what went wrong with the movies, emotional puppet sex, and the terror of writing a novel.

By Adam Sternbergh
The Hustlers at Scores

A group of women working the strip clubs saw themselves as Robin Hoods: stealing from rich clients, giving to their poor own selves.

By Jessica Pressler
Inside the Making of ‘Serial’ Season Two

How the podcast scaled up from Adnan to Afghanistan.

By Carl Swanson

Intelligencer

Culture

The Cut

Fine Jewelry and Not Much Else

A New Year’s feast for the eyes.

Departments

Strategist