Renate Reinsve
The actress stars in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, Norway’s Oscar submission, which just earned a place on the Best International Feature Film short list
Are Those Socks Bukowski?
Celebrated authors don’t have to “go Hollywood” to sell out—they just have to die
Nuclear Winter of the Soul
Ruth Wilson plays Ibsen’s anti-heroine in Ivo van Hove’s fire-and-ice Hedda Gabler
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
When Netflix Funds a Grifter
Con woman Anna Sorokin’s most well-known victim gives her side of the story
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
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
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