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
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?
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
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
Guilt by Orientation
In JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, Oliver Stone continues his three-decade slander of an innocent man—one who, not coincidentally, happened to be gay
Vive la Différence!
The British adaptation of the cult French show Call My Agent! will have just as many Hollywood cameos, but its protagonists are far more buttoned up
No, That’s Not a Boom Mike in the Frame. That’s … Tommy
How a grainy sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee jump-started the Web—and a Hulu mini-series
Hall of Mirrors
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley—now showing in glorious black and white—is a throwback to Hollywood’s golden era, and a film for our times
Shelter from the Storm
Climate control from John Lee Hooker, Lucinda Williams, Joe Henry, and more
Mr. StarCraft
Elon Musk’s love for video games has informed his career, from PayPal to Tesla, more than perhaps anything else
An Unblessed Arrangement
Inside the turbulent life and times of Consuelo Vanderbilt, the last heiress to be able to blame her unhappy marriage on someone other than herself
Francis Ford Coppola’s Overlooked Masterpiece
A conversation about The Conversation—the movie that predicted our surveillance-saturated world
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
Steve Schapiro Brought the Laughs
A fixture on the Hollywood circuit, Schapiro photographed everyone from Mel Brooks to Dolly Parton with humor and class
