Simon Rex
The former MTV V.J. went from a botched Good Will Hunting audition to a failed rap career. His new film, Red Rocket, is something of a comeback
What Really Happened Inside Hollywood’s Hottest Party
Confessions of (and dirt-dishing from) a Vanity Fair dilettante
Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd!
The inimitable, irrepressible Angela Lansbury, on the road as Mrs. Lovett
Bridging the Gap
Julia Quinn, the woman behind the novels that inspired the hit Netflix TV show Bridgerton, discusses the screen adaptation of her Regency romance
The Soros Cosmos
Edited by George Soros’s longtime publisher and friend, a new collection of essays tells the life story of the financier turned philanthropist
Hockney Hour
“I don’t know why they’re going on about me smoking. I mean I’m 84 now”: an afternoon in Normandy with David Hockney
Once and for All
Some acts get lucky, and some don’t. We’ve collected the songs for those who lie somewhere in between: the one-hit wonders
Libraries of Dreams
A new volume compiles photographs of the world’s oldest and most groundbreaking book collections
The Id of Ali G
In an exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book, Judd Apatow talks with Sacha Baron Cohen about the origins of Borat, Ali G, and his other creations
Nicolas Lefebvre
The mysterious Frenchman making art out of his collector’s items—and keeping mum on his relationship with Monica Bellucci
A “Band of Brothers” Re-unites for Ukraine
Behind the story of the photojournalism greats who came out of retirement to take on Putin
The Robin Hood of Art
How did a British taxi driver abscond with a Goya masterpiece through a National Gallery toilet window? A new film starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent has the answer
Genius at Play
Three decades on, the return of Mary Zimmerman’s breakout theater piece The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Ukraine Answers, “To Be!”
From the Lviv National Opera, the long-suppressed folkloric pageant When the Fern Blooms blazes with heroic national fervor
A Turn-of-the-Century Patricia Highsmith
The modernist writer Katherine Mansfield offended everyone from T. S. Eliot to E. M. Forster. Her fiction was so witty that the literary world forgave her
