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  1. rise and fall
    When We Were Bread HeadsWhat did we want from sourdough? And did we get it after all?
    By Matthew Schneier
  2. write it
    How These Writers Got a Literary AgentEight writers on finding the best person to represent their work.
    By the Cut
  3. encounter
    ‘We Saw This Problem Coming’Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman to ever serve in Congress, on remote legislating during a pandemic.
    By Rebecca Traister
  4. fiction
    Fleishman Is in Lockdown: A Short Story by Taffy Brodesser-AknerA sequel, exclusive to the Cut, in which Dr. Toby Fleishman works through the pandemic at a New York hospital.
    By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
  5. what i learned
    Making a New Kind of Space for Each Other“I was born Black. We strive every day to have just a glimmer of hope,” my partner tells me.
    By Carl Swanson
  6. photography
    The Afterlife of George Floyd: A Portfolio by Photographer Eli ReedAmerican iconography of a death, history and a Black southern homecoming.
    By Chaédria LaBouvier
  7. parenting
    The Sacrifice Black Children Shouldn’t Have to MakeThis country prizes Black children’s precocity — insists on it, even, much of the time.
    By Stacia Brown
  8. breonna taylor
    A Mother’s Birthday Tribute to Breonna Taylor“It’s hard to breathe without her.”
    As told to Angelina Chapin
  9. profile
    Surviving It AllShe’s 92, made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.
    By Rebecca Traister
  10. celebrity
    Has Isolation Left You Starved for Gossip?Lainey Gossip’s Elaine Lui on what we can learn from celebrity scuttlebutt in a pandemic.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  13. first person
    The Spaces Between UsWhen friends and neighbors run for the hills, small differences in wealth suddenly loom large.
    By Lisa Miller
  14. first person
    ‘They Separated Me From My Baby’Hospitals are keeping newborns from their parents over coronavirus fears.
    By Irin Carmon
  15. cut covers
    Rah-Rah, BitchesLa’Darius Marshall is the real breakout star of Cheer.
    By Bobby Finger
  16. relationships
    Dating in CaptivityGo ahead and reinstall Tinder in self-isolation. Or, if that doesn’t work, join a virtual sext bunker.
    By Allison P. Davis
  17. dining in
    Just Give In to Alison RomanNow is a great time to accept her culinary authority.
    By Molly Fischer
  18. coronavirus
    Getting By With a Little Help From My Friends“Social distancing” is turning to “remote leaning” on my social circle. It’s been vital.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  19. coronavirus
    How Do You Prepare to Give Birth in a Pandemic?Planning for birth when no one knows anything.
    By Irin Carmon
  20. coronavirus
    A City of BodiesThe week we started hoarding beans.
    By Molly Fischer
  21. feature
    Two Lost DaughtersMari Gilbert’s life, transformed by the death of one daughter, was ended by another.
    By Robert Kolker
  22. politics
    Bernie’s Wife Is the Original SandernistaFor richer or poorer, Jane Sanders married a movement.
    By Bridget Read
  25. science of us
    ‘Light Is My New Drug’The actually convincing science of photomedicine.
    By Melissa Dahl
  26. spring 2020 fashion issue
    Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?Investigating the undying tyranny of terrazzo.
    By Molly Fischer
  27. politics
    Katie Hill, After the ScandalHer rise to Congress heralded the arrival of a new and modern political generation. And then the pictures leaked.
    By Caitlin Moscatello
  28. encounter
    Songs for Feeling Your FeelingsSoccer Mommy writes through her life on Color Theory.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  29. feature
    The Stolen Kids of Sarah LawrenceWhat happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?
    By Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh
  30. first person
    Replaying My ShameThirteen years later, what happened at Gawker isn’t going away.
    By Emily Gould
  31. where's the party
    Brunch With Extra Sausage (NSFW)One Sunday afternoon with male strippers and an omelet bar.
    By Allison P. Davis
  32. power
    The Immoderate Susan CollinsAfter a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump?
    By Rebecca Traister
  33. nyfw fall 2020
    Alive and Kicking at Marc JacobsThe designer staged a dance-based show that evoked the past but felt entirely modern.
    By Cathy Horyn
  34. oscars 2020
    The Night I Crashed Colin Firth’s Oscar MomentToday, I still feel a remorseful twinge.
    By Nell Scovell
  37. that feeling when
    If You Can Say It, You Can Feel ItSome scientists believe we have infinite emotions, so long as we can name them.
    By Melissa Dahl
  38. testing testing
    Mommy Can’t Talk Right Now — She’s Dopamine FastingI tried the Silicon Valley trend and came up with a better idea.
    By Rebecca Harrington
  39. profile
    Vivian Gornick Doesn’t Get the HypeThe 84-year-old memoirist has a newfound audience, but she’s skeptical of their adoration.
    By Nora Caplan-Bricker
  40. first person
    When I Moved to Saudi Arabia as a Kid, Boxing Saved MeI was furious and isolated. Then I discovered Muhammad Ali.
    By Hilal Isler
  41. fiction
    See It SlantWhen I was 19, a girl named K showed me what I was missing. Then she disappeared.
    By C Pam Zhang
  42. first person
    The Healthiest Baby I’ve Ever HadHere we go again, I thought, after the doctor told me there was a problem.
    By Jen Gann
  43. feature
    A Year’s Diary of Climate ReckoningSome scientists say the best way to combat climate change is to talk about it. For 2019, my New Year’s resolution was to do just that.
    By Emily Raboteau
  44. the body politic
    Can You Spot the Fake?Hint: Look at the pundits.
    By Rebecca Traister
  45. reasons to love new york
    The 8 Million Reasons to Love New YorkA tribute to those inspiringly singular New Yorkers who wouldn’t — probably couldn’t — live anywhere else.
    By Daniel Featherstone
  46. who were the 2010s?
    Instagram’s Co-Founder on Creating the World’s FilterKevin Systrom talks truth, scale, and influencers.
    By Stella Bugbee
  49. feature
    A Party Drug for the End of the WorldHow ketamine became the vice of choice for our dissociated moment.
    By Anna Silman
  50. the body politic
    ‘The Meanie, the Lightweight, the Crazies, and the Angry, Dissembling Elitists’Lessons from a year of six women running for president.
    By Rebecca Traister
  51. the future issue
    Abortion After the ClinicAs Republican lawmakers try to legislate it out of existence, the future of reproductive healthcare may be at home.
    By Irin Carmon
  52. confessions
    New York’s Cult Fragrance Wouldn’t Exist If It Weren’t for MeSantal 33’s patient zero speaks.
    By Jane Larkworthy
  53. profile
    Chelsea Clinton Is Figuring Out Her Own Life NowThe odd situation of the former First Daughter in 2019.
    By Jonathan Van Meter
  54. @tavitulle
    Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?Confessions from inside the algorithm.
    By Tavi Gevinson