The Canadian
Scenes from what should be Martin Scorsese’s next film
Pity the Nation
A poem for these times
The Great Oscars Soundtrack
Featuring the Kinks, Anton Karas, Lana Del Rey, Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, and Ellie Goulding, with a special appearance by the Electric Prunes
You Can Take Galileo Out of Rome …
The author of a new history of the astronomical revolution explores the radical scientist’s conservative side
I’m Still Touring
Frank Sinatra was a master of the long goodbye, but Elton John’s farewell is, like Brexit, a process
Caroline de Maigret
De Beauvoir, Didion, Ernaux: the French style star on the essential women writers
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
Elle Accuse!
Protesters vow to disrupt France’s Oscars after Polanski is nominated for his Dreyfus film
Smokin’!
Coming off A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper will portray Leonard Bernstein in a Spielberg-and-Scorsese-backed production
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
