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
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
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
Shelter from the Storm
Climate control from John Lee Hooker, Lucinda Williams, Joe Henry, and more
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
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
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
The Devil’s in the Data
Walter Murch reveals how Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation clicked together—and anticipated surveillance capitalism
Mr. StarCraft
Elon Musk’s love for video games has informed his career, from PayPal to Tesla, more than perhaps anything else
