New York (September 2, 2013)
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Fall Preview 2013
Movies: Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese team up again-this time to tackle the glories and grotesqueries of Wall Street. TV: Anna Faris translates her off-color comedic-film persona for a network sitcom; Andy Samberg wears a badge, and a Speedo. Pop: How Sting got over himself and Neko Case turned depression into pleasure. Books: Margaret Atwood on literary dystopias and the benefits of the black plague. Theater: Real-life husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz wrestle with adultery-and Pinteresque pauses-on Broadway. Art: Wangechi Mutu's otherworldly collages. Classical & Dance: Anna Nicole Smith joins Carmen and Madame Butterfly as opera's latest femme tragique. Stores: Bright bike locks, chunky throws, leather aprons, and 47 other goods city retailers and e-tailers are excited to stock. Food: Daniel Boulud's former director of communications takes a spin as a restaurateur, M. Wells takes on the steakhouse, and Franny's begets Marco's. Nightlife: Eleven new spots where you can dance till (nearly) dawn, sample German brews from monks, and even practice your shuffleboard skills. Plus: Our critics reveal what they're most looking forward to seeing, hearing, and reading this season.
On the Cover: Photograph by Robert Maxwell for New York Magazine.
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With his new novel, Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon broaches a subject he's never really addressed so head-on before: home. Which just might be a sign that, after a lifetime of living more or less on the run, he's finally settled into a kind of agitated domesticity. By Boris Kachka
The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities
After 9/11, the NYPD Intelligence Division underwent a dramatic overhaul, bringing in CIA-trained operators to create a "demographics" department that acted like the CIA-and went further than even the FBI could stomach. But has it actually stopped any terror plots? By Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman


