The New York Times Magazine
12.1.13
Janusz Kaminski for The New York Times. Set design: Stefan Beckman Studio. Costume design: Susan Winget.
Janusz Kaminski for The New York Times
The actors who gave the year’s best performances star in one-line films created by the Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski.
Behind the Scenes
Portfolio 
The Big Picture Strikes Back
By A. O. SCOTT
Think TV is where all the action and ambition is? This year proves there are some things the movies still do better.
The Making of ‘Making a Scene’
By THE STAFF
Janusz Kaminski explains his process in making the 11 films as part of the magazine’s Movies issue.
Solve the popular variety puzzles from the Sunday magazine at our newly relaunched hub for New York Times crosswords.
Poaching Memories from Google’s Wandering Eye
December 16, 2013
Behind the Cover Story: Adam Fisher on Google’s Map of the World
December 16, 2013
After Typhoon Haiyan, a Dispatch From the South China Sea
December 14, 2013
The Lives They Loved: Submit Your Memories
By THE STAFF
We invite you to contribute stories and photographs of your loved ones who died this year.
The 6th Floor Blog
Down the Instagram Rabbit Hole
By MAYA LAU
Discovery of one great Instagram photographer leads to the discovery of another one, then another . . .
Talk
Danica Patrick on Racing Cars and Building Brands
Interview by AMY CHOZICK
The Nascar driver says that her brand is “about being feminine but unique and different and kind of blazing a trail.”
The Ethicist
Did I Fence a Sign?
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Black-market gray area; contribution conundrum.
Innovation
Who Made That Spork?
By JESSICA GROSS
The medieval tool that led to today’s plastic utensil that “swings both ways.”
The One-Page Magazine
Hungry, Hungry Voters
Hammertime with Gary Shteyngart; Rob Ford or Ford Focus?
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From The Archive
Editors' Picks
Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend
By PAUL GREGORY
Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an academic looks back at the summer that might have changed Oswald’s life.
Where Have All the Sopranos Gone?
By ELIZABETH WEIL
The ever-earlier onset of puberty is reshaping the legendary Leipzig boys choir.
Diagnosis
Gut-Wrenching
A woman suffers bouts of extreme abdominal pain that come and go and come again.
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