A Playwright and a Songwriter, Finding the Right Words

In November 2007, Emily Kaczmarek and dozens of other high-school students from throughout the country met with several Supreme Court justices in Washington. Among them was Justice Anthony Kennedy. “Why is discrimination wrong?” Justice Kennedy asked the students. The students, all seasoned overachievers, struggled to devise impressive, long-winded responses. No, no, he said. Not complicated.…

How Forlini’s Survives the Instagram Horde

As rats scampered among trash cans by moonlight in Chinatown, a procession of tall and very good looking people started entering an old Italian restaurant on Baxter Street called Forlini’s. They walked past its grand wooden doors and moved right through the stuffy chandelier-lit dining room, where middle-aged customers looked up from their veal marsala…

T’s Best Photos From New York Fashion Week

Amid the uproar surrounding Serena Williams’s U.S. Open defeat and the clamor of the primary elections, the shows in New York this season were calibrated to cut through the city’s noise — with more noise. Prabal Gurung’s collection was heavy on suits in divergent vertical halves, wearable schisms in kaleidoscopic colors. Eckhaus Latta’s show —…