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Sean Landers "Dance of Life" on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery.

Time is on my Side

In light of a new retrospective of late-life Picasso works, ruminations on sex, painting, rock n roll, and the circle of dancing naked hippies that is life.


Issue 15 Editors' Note

Hidden in Plain Sight


5 Questions Mara Altman

Mara Altman

Mara Altman was brave and uninhibited when it came to her journalism for the Village Voice, New York Times and New York magazine. But when it came to her own body, she had issues. So she went on a quest to get to the bottom of them, hilariously retold in her new book, Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman’s Quest for an Orgasm.


place Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine's America

The author of Common Sense and architect of American democracy died penniless in a Greenwich Village boarding house 200 years ago next month. Historian James S. Kaplan traces his forgotten legacy.


Train Gangs

The latest victim of the Mexican drug wars may turn out to be Union Pacific, the U.S.’s largest railroad operator, which is being sued by the Justice Department for allegedly failing to keep drugs off its freights.


Blood Money

The Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is a brutally violent machete-wielding gang that is murdering, robbing, raping and extorting money from the Latino communities in Houston where they live.


flavor (Photo by Anne Dailey)

Forgotten Foods

The only way to save some nearly lost breeds of livestock and strains of seed may be to eat them.