Table of Contents

September 27, 2021

Cover Story

‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo’

Simone Biles decides what comes next. If anything. By Camonghne Felix

On the Cover: Simone Biles. Photograph by Ashley Peña for New York Magazine. Styling by Shibon Kennedy. Makeup by Raisa Flowers. Hair by Lacy Redway. Top by Aisling Camps. Simone’s own jewelry.

features

How Miami Seduced Silicon Valley

And what the Floridian tech culture looks like.

By Benjamin Wallace
After Tony

David Chase revisits the world of The Sopranos.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

Intelligencer

Tomorrow

The age vagaries of the vaccine.
The Group Portrait

School drop-off at P.S. 705.
Encounter

Socialist streamer Hasan Piker.
Cityscape

Foraging for urban apples.

Departments

Strategist

Best Bets

Remodel your kitchen — tonight.
Steal My Vacation

A week of sampling goat curry and rum in Jamaica.
The Look Book

Takes in a Central Park chess tournament.
Design Hunting

An artist’s rustic oasis in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Are Vegetables Winning?

From celery-root muffulettas to eggplant unagi, plant-based food is sweeping the city.
Maybe Forcing City Workers Back to the Office Wasn’t the Best Idea

Civil servants are now looking for new jobs en masse.

The Culture Pages

Jasper and Me

Living in the iconoclastic artist’s century.
Enter Stage Right

The stars of Impeachment dissect their pundit personas.
Interior Life

Amant brings a touch of the cloister to its East Williamsburg arts center.
The Theater Review

Sanctuary City isn’t always a refuge.
The TV Review

The handsome tragedies of Y: The Last Man.
The Movie Review

The Eyes of Tammy Faye is all eyelashes, no teeth.
To Do: September 29–October 13

Twenty-five picks for the next two weeks.