New York’s Got Game
Walk south on Sixth Avenue toward West Third Street at any time of the day or night and you’ll be hard-pressed not to see a basketball game in play. It’s a perpetual motion—has been for decades—throughout the city
Elizabeth Woodward
The documentary filmmaker, whose latest project was short-listed for an Academy Award, on the importance of privacy in our data-crazed world
Call Me!
American Gigolo swaggered into theaters 40 years ago this month and forever rocked the worlds of film, fashion, music, and sex. An oral history
Frieze Los Angeles
A breezy, essential guide to the fair, now in its second edition
Xi’s Millennial Problem
Decades into China’s economic boom, the country’s young artists are suddenly reckoning with a government that’s switched gears
On Topics
The millennial novelist Miranda Popkey has more to say about #MeToo than you can fit in a hashtag
L.A. Confidential
When it comes to Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s, Andee Nathanson was to photography what Eve Babitz was to literature, recording the exploding scene from within. A new book of her photographs illustrates that golden age
Claire Tomalin
Recommends four books spanning three centuries
Sex (Time) Machine
A new history of sex reveals tales of Clarice Clatterbollocks, testicle thefts, and women keeping live fish in their knickers
Films for Discerning Audiences
The best movies never get made. Time to put a stop to that
Smokin’!
Coming off A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper will portray Leonard Bernstein in a Spielberg-and-Scorsese-backed production
Super Tracks for Superheroes
What do Ennio Morricone, the Meters, Nina Simone, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, and Rage Against the Machine have in common? Just listen
Elle Accuse!
Protesters vow to disrupt France’s Oscars after Polanski is nominated for his Dreyfus film
