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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
Francis Ford Coppola’s Overlooked Masterpiece
A conversation about The Conversation—the movie that predicted our surveillance-saturated world
The Devil’s in the Data
Walter Murch reveals how Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation clicked together—and anticipated surveillance capitalism
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