New York Magazine: September 2, 2019 Issue

The Hustle Behind Hustlers

How do you get a film about rich white men getting scammed made in an industry run by rich white men? First step: Get J.Lo to sign on.

Stripper Pole to Tent Pole

Roselyn Keo’s life inspired a major motion picture. What did she learn? What did we?

She Finally Gets Her Theme Music

You could say Regina King has been a superhero for years. Now, on Watchmen, she finally gets to play one.

Thug-About-Town

Thanks to Peaky Blinders, Cillian Murphy has become one of TV’s most charismatic brutes. (The haircut also helped.)

Bend the Knee

King Princess, Brooklyn queer pop royalty, is ready for the throne.

Back to the USSR

In The Secrets We Kept, the author drew on newly unearthed CIA files and a family obsession with Dr. Zhivago.

She’s Got That Bite

Marisa Tomei is playing the trying-to-be-merry widow Serafina in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo.

Fall Preview: Movies

Cats, Frozen II, Little Women, and more.

Fall Preview: Television

The Morning Show, Watchmen, Nancy Drew, and more.

Fall Preview: Pop

From Tame Impala, Charli XCX, FKA Twigs, and more. Plus, four not-to-miss concerts.

Fall Preview: Art

From JR, Amy Sherald, Pope.L, and more.

Fall Preview: Theater

The Inheritance, Jagged Little Pill, Freestyle Love Supreme, and more.

Fall Preview: Books

From Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, and more.

Fall Preview: Classical Music

Porgy and Bess returns, Kelli O’Hara sings with the New York Philharmonic, and more.

Fall Preview: Podcasts

A Dr. Death follow-up, a series on Dolly Parton, and more true-crime stories.

Issue Contents

Table of Contents

September 2, 2019

Renée Zellweger’s Lost Decade

features

American Animals

How to Major in Unicorn

INTELLIGENCER

Power

Timeline

Encounter

From the Cut

Cityscape

DEPARTMENTS

‘New York’ Crossword

Comments: Week of September 2, 2019

The Approval Matrix: Week of September 2, 2019

On the Cover: Renée Zellweger, and New York’s 2019 Fall Preview Issue

STRATEGIST

Best Bets

Look Book

The Urbanist

Fall Preview: New Tastes, New Tables

Fall Preview: Bread From Beirut

Fall Preview: The Scoop

Fall Preview: Meatless Wonders

Fall Preview: Location, Location

THE CULTURE PAGES