November 25, 2013 Issue
Cover Story
Platinum Underdog
A northern girl embraced as the face of country music. A celebrity-dating tabloid magnet who takes breakups as hard as any adolescent spurned. Sitting with Taylor Swift in her homebody
Nashville penthouse, it’s not hard to see how her perpetual insider-outsider persona has helped make her pop’s true superstar, bigger than
any of her peers with big records this fall. By Jody Rosen
On the Cover: Taylor Swift. Photograph by Karen Collins/Trunk Archive.
Features
The Truly Paranoid Style in American Politics
Fifty years after JFK’s assassination, with fever-dream claims (spying on every phone call?!) coming true, the climate for conspiracy-mongering has never been so rich. From fake moon landings to Bill Clinton’s body count, a greatest hits of out-there theories. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Twin Titans of Stuyvesant High School
Jack and David Cahn are possibly the most overachieving seniors in the city’s most overachieving school. And soon, very soon, they will be unleashed onto the world at large. Or at least college. By Jada Yuan
Intelligencer
Lulu’s Grade Inflation
On the app for slandering ex-boyfriends, courtesy reigns.
The Sticky-Finger Discount
A dossier on the craziest edible thefts, from nuts to Nutella.
The Other Wiki Wars
Wikipedia’s most revised pages, and some of the editorial battles they’ve engendered.
59 Minutes With Dick Parsons
Riffing on Harlem’s Jazz Age, old and new, with the Citigroup chairman turned club proprietor.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Columns
In the Tank
Why teams have started torpedoing their seasons to secure top draft picks, and why that is an absolutely terrible strategy.
Strategist
Best Bets
JoAnn Berman furniture, Sass & Bide opens in Soho, and more new stuff in stores.
The Look Book
�I wish I could say that I came to New York to be a model, but I moved here a few years ago on political asylum.�
The Underground Gourmet Review
A sandwich specialist ditches the bread, pours on the fish sauce.
In Season
Rainbow lacinato kale takes well to this riff on creamed spinach from Quality Italian chef Scott Tacinelli.
Restaurant Opening
The Simone opens on the Upper East Side.
Restaurant Opening
The 606 R&D team opens takeout joint R&D Foods.
Hit Print
The idea of starting a (non-digital) magazine in this day and age seems downright insane. And yet, for those keeping score at the newsstand, dozens upon dozens of them have sprung up in the past few years.
Fashionables
The unveiling of Alexander Wang's Balenciaga in Soho.
Culture
Adventures in Publishing
What does the book business look like on the inside? Insanity.
Restoration Project
Steven Soderbergh sends Williamsburg back in time.
Futurama
A first look at the Queens Museum's world of tomorrow.
Extreme TV Repair
How Kanye fixed his broken 60-foot screen and saved the Yeezus tour.
The TV Review
Bill Cosby is as you remember him in his first stand-up special since 1983.
The Theater Review
The full Elizabethan treatment is kind to Richard III and fantastic to Twelfth Night.
The Movie Review
A new director makes a difference in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
To Do: November 20�27, 2013
25 things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of November 25, 2013
Readers sound off on abortion, NFL bullies, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of November 25, 2013
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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