On the Cover of New York Magazine: Reckoning with a Reckoning

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Welcome to On the Cover, our biweekly digest of stories from the latest issue of New York Magazine. "Chaos isn't going anywhere soon," wrote Zak Cheney-Rice in this magazine nearly a year ago, American cities still smoldering after George Floyd's murder and the protests it inspired. For some, the sight of then–Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for a reported eight minutes and 46 seconds — after the recent, equally horrifying deaths of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery — would spark a year of rageful dissent, 12 more months spent hoarsely demanding justice as the bodies continued to pile up. To others, it would be a year of awkward and painful self-reflection, of appraising all the entitlement that could no longer go unremarked. Others would react to these reactions with hostility and worse. Our new issue is an attempt to apply some perspective to these disorienting events. "This past year since the murder of George Floyd and the protests that rocked the country has been so many things— turbulent and traumatic and transformative—as people, Black Americans in particular, processed our exhaustion and rage at all the dying," says features editor Adrienne Green. "But in many ways it was also awkward as hell, as the Reckoning made its way into our friendships and relationships and workplaces. We wanted to make an issue that dealt with police abuse and the movement that deepened in response to it, of course, but also the very human discomfort that marked this year and where we actually stood after all of it." read the cover story Inside This Issue The Cut Stop Hustling Black Death Samaria Rice is the mother of Tamir, not a "mother of the movement." Intelligencer Could New Endorsements Vault Kathryn Garcia Into the Top Tier? "Some of my competitors get fed on being noticed." Curbed Barbara Jakobson Thinks of Her Art-Filled Townhouse As Her Autobiography She's lived here since 1965 and now gets up and down its five floors on her spiffy new stair-climbing "worm." Vulture How Bluey Became the Best Kids' Show of Our Time No other series gets the strange, hilarious magic of play. Grub Street The Future of Sushi? At Rosella, local and sustainable sourcing trumps traditional supply chains. Your support makes our award-winning journalism possible. Subscribe to New York for 60% off. More From This Issue:   • Highbrow Brilliant: The return of … everything. View this issue's Approval Matrix, our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies. • 26 Across: Syllables before "I can't hear you." Play this week's Crossword Puzzle. • New York Corner: Grub Street editors select five things to eat, drink, and read right now, including Bemelmans' martinis, Peter Hoffman's new memoir, and a gluten-free vegan chocolate-chip cookie for hedonists. Check out nymag.com all week for more stories from the issue. In Case You Missed It:   • The Housewives Institute Bulletin: Real Housewives recapper Brian Moylan teamed up with Vulture to create a newsletter for dedicated students of the Reality Television Arts and Sciences. • Podcasts: On the latest episode of The Cut, host Avery Trufelman explores the role of exercise with Hot Bod columnist Maggie Lange and famous cartoonist Alison Bechdel. • The City Politic: Clare Malone went behind the scenes of Andrew Yang's insider mayoral campaign. We sent you this email because you've previously opted-in to receive communications from New York. Prefer not to receive this email? Let us know.   unsubscribe   |   privacy notice   |   update preferences This email was sent to aymentanaze.news@blogger.com. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get this newsletter in your inbox. View this email in your browser. You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved