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June 29, 2015 Issue
Cover Story
Rikers Island, Population 9,790
What everyday life is really like inside the troubled jail, in the words of inmates, correction officers, and the man tasked with fixing it. A collaboration with The Marshall Project
On the Cover: A holding cell at Rikers Island’s George Motchan Detention Center, June 25. Photograph by Ashley Gilbertson/VII. Photo for New York Magazine.
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Features
Fears of a Clown
Boswick the Clown is sick of everyone being afraid of him. By Benjamin Wallace
We’re No. 2!
Lyft used to be recognized as the anti-Uber. Now the boundaries aren’t so clear. By Annie Lowrey
A Genius in Bed
Jean Nouvel, the architect who can’t stand one of his new buildings. By Justin Davidson
Intelligencer
The National Interest
Social revolution may not be too strong a term for what we’re living through.
Life in Pictures: Gayle King
Five wardrobe changes and a meal in an elevator with the CBS This Morning co-host.
155 Minutes With Katie Nolan
The host of Garbage Time, who brings a sneaky feminism to Fox Sports.
Dissent
Justice Scalia leaves the left in stitches.
The Cut
Summer: My Favorite Suit
Swimmers and sunbathers on how they feel about that most intimate of public garments.
Strategist
Best Bets: Week of June 29, 2015
A bikini concierge service; fun umbrellas; kid activities for grown ups.
The Look Book
The Sun-In aficionado with a single-letter name.
The Restaurant Review
With Untitled, Danny Meyer brings simple seasonal cooking to the new Whitney.
The Dish
Marc Meyer’s hybrid chicharrón at Rosie’s.
Tasting the Tasting Menus
Platt on New York’s best.
The Keeper: 39 Paints
For walls, bodies, and canvases. Including: �baby skin��colored spray paint and Alex Katz’s favorite orange.
Culture
The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace
His canonization as self-help saint overlooks the importance of his contempt.
Amy Schumer is Going to Be a Very Different Kind of Movie Star
�She’s an honesty bomb. And she’s coming for you.�
Pot Culture: The Stoner Canon
Highlights in high art.
Music
La Monte Young explains his immeasurable influence.
The TV Review
Amazon’s Catastrophe is the romantic comedy of the year.
The Movie Review
Tangerine’s post-camp transgender humor.
The Movie Review
Amy, as in Winehouse, is devastating.
The Classical Review
Conlon Nancarrow’s superhuman pianos.
To Do: July 1�July 15, 2015
Twenty-five picks for the next two weeks.
Departments
Comments: Week of June 29, 2015
Readers sound off on bees, a tea-party suicide, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of June 29, 2015
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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