New York Magazine: November 21, 2022 Issue

Table of Contents

November 21, 2022

Cover Story

What H-A-P-P-E-N-E-D?

The week Sam Bankman-Fried fell to earth — and what comes next. By Lane Brown , Gabriel Debenedetti , Kevin T. Dugan , John Herrman , Ankush Khardori , Shawn McCreesh , Bridget Read , Matthew Schneier , Elizabeth Weil , Reeves Wiedeman , and Simon Van Zuylen-Wood

On the Cover: Sam Bankman-Fried in August. Photograph by Sasha Arutyunova.

features

Seed Money

The billionaire with a voracious sexual appetite and the phony war hero who tried to ruin his life.

By Ken Silverstein
I Made a Lifetime Christmas Movie

What drives the holiday-movie industrial complex? One reporter got herself cast as an extra in one to find out.

By Rebecca Alter
The Spectacular Life of Octavia E. Butler

Behind the science fiction, there was an obsessive, often lonely, pursuit of greatness.

By E. Alex Jung

Plus: Andrea Long Chu on why Butler is so often misread, four writers on her enduring appeal, and the haphazard exuberance of her private journals.

Departments

Strategist

The Culture Pages

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