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
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
A Musical Feast
Music maketh the meal, and these tracks—by Curtis Mayfield, Guru, Moby, and more—are here to prove it
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?
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
When Netflix Funds a Grifter
Con woman Anna Sorokin’s most well-known victim gives her side of the story
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
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?
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?
Working Girl
In Brown v. Board of Education, more than a dozen attorneys fought to overturn school segregation. Only one of them juggled a legal career and motherhood
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
Where Have You Gone, Bill de Blasio?
New York City’s former mayor decided not to run for governor, maybe because he had these losers behind him
Francis Ford Coppola’s Overlooked Masterpiece
A conversation about The Conversation—the movie that predicted our surveillance-saturated world
