It’s BoJo the Clown!
Can Boris Johnson survive Partygate? And speaking of scandal: Who is stealing L.A.’s French bulldogs?
Are Those Socks Bukowski?
Celebrated authors don’t have to “go Hollywood” to sell out—they just have to die
Gridiron Giants
Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, a look back through the archives of America’s favorite sport
Take Me to Dimes Square
A young playwright reveals how the pandemic led him to find himself—and his latest play—in the Chinatown stomping ground of New York’s downtown set
Nuclear Winter of the Soul
Ruth Wilson plays Ibsen’s anti-heroine in Ivo van Hove’s fire-and-ice Hedda Gabler
Playing with Fire
For the years that Australia banned Philip Roth’s controversial novel Portnoy’s Complaint, a cottage industry churned out handmade bootleg copies
Re-Inventing Anna
Rachel DeLoache Williams was friends with Anna Sorokin when Sorokin was still “Anna Delvey,” living large on borrowed credit cards. Now she’s watching the fraudster become a star again
When Netflix Funds a Grifter
Con woman Anna Sorokin’s most well-known victim gives her side of the story
Mexico, According to Graciela Iturbide
“In a way, I really see the world in black and white”: an interview with the photographer, whose shots of Mexico and its diaspora go on show at Paris’s Fondation Cartier
Death on the Aisle
Given the allegations of rape and sexual assault against lead actor Armie Hammer, is Death on the Nile past its “best before” date?
A Picture Worth a Thousand Sins
Taken in her London home, it was the photo that became synonymous with Ghislaine Maxwell’s culpability. Why hasn’t the U.K. taken action against her?
A Musical Feast
Music maketh the meal, and these tracks—by Curtis Mayfield, Guru, Moby, and more—are here to prove it
Come to the Cabaret
It’s a night of re-invention and immersion with Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley in a new revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s decadent musical
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
The Bernadette Corporation, a radical 90s artist collective, made films and a fashion line for the downtown set, then largely disappeared. Now Metrograph is bringing them back
Smoking Gun at the Ballets Russes
Did the young George Balanchine steal from a certain senior colleague?
Literary Exile
Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching children was beloved by critics and readers. Then a Twitter storm called for it—and its author—to be canceled
