CATEGORIES

Hush-Hush Affair Love and other negotiations in the time of the NDA.

THE NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT IS designed to live in the shadows. But earlier this year, I started to notice them everywhere.

Games: Olivia Craighead

Are Olympians Going to Swim in Poop Water? The world's best athletes, ancient sewers, and the Seine.

Jon Lovett

The podcast host doesn't seem particularly comfortable with being a public figure. So why did he go on Survivor?

The Citi Bike Juice Crews

The docks don't charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.

The Inside Game: Gabriel Debenedetti

Who Can Make Joe Go? Democrats stared into the debate abyss. Now they ask if he's a lost cause.

Here's Looking at You

An uneven directorial debut tries to capture the horror of being watched.

Word Salad

In the extended Trump era, an artist's truisms ring false.

An Anticlimactic Finish

Bridgerton's latest season has a fatally underdeveloped leading man but is still a ton of fun.

Yorgos Lanthimos's Fantasies of Control

The director's latest, Kinds of Kindness, which premiered at Cannes, is a return to his primary interest― what makes people submit.

Annie Baker Goes to Hollywood

The renowned playwright switches mediums with her sneakily expansive debut film about a possessive mother-daughter relationship.

Return of the Mic

How chat podcasts have taken over the medium and dominated the cultural discourse (again).

Is This Your King?

On House of the Dragon's second season, Tom Glynn-Carney is so good at playing pathetically bad you almost forget you're supposed to hate him.

Summer EATING - One of Everything, To Go

72 onion-soaked smashburgers, crispy-cutlet subs, cold noodles, and sizzling spicy skewers to eat on the street this summer.

In the Pink

After Anne Hanavan found her 350-square-foot \"freedom pad,\" her friends helped her get the vibe right.

Aaron Bushnell's Agonies

Burning himself to death outside the Israeli Embassy turned him into an antiwar martyr. What upbringing could have led to such an extreme act?

HOW THE LOSER WON

SMILING DIDN'T FEEL QUITE RIGHT. MICHAEL COHEN WONDERED: WAS IT SAFE TO SMILE NOW?

HOW DID THIS......BECOME THIS?

THE SURPRISING EVOLUTION OF THE REPUBLICAN WOMAN.

Self: Katy Schneider - My Spotless Mind

The existential divide between Rememberers and Forgetters.

65 MINUTES WITH...Nadège Vanhée

The intentionally little-known designer has figured out the most important part of her job: how to cater to the Hermès customer.

Neighborhood News: A Threat in Brooklyn Heights

Protests escalate into antisemitic vandalism.

Getting Around: Nolan Hicks - What Made Kathy Hochul Flip?

Inside the governor's sudden U-turn on congestion pricing.

Reality Check

Joseph O'Neill's realist novel embodies the best and worst of the genre.

An Atlas Who Can't Carry

J.Lo's AI-friendly flick flattens its own world.

Billie Doesn't Have to Do It All

The singer's gleefully disorienting third album doesn't hit every note it reaches for.

A Hollywood Family's Grudges

In Griffin Dunne's memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club-about growing up the son of Dominick Dunne and the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion-both acid and names are dropped.

Quite the Tomato

A summer appetizer from a seriously ambitious restaurant.

This Cooking Can't Be Pinned Down

Theodora's menu is all over the map. That's what makes it great.

Answered Prayers

Brooklynites Cristiana Peña and Nick Porter had a dream to live in an old church upstate.

INDUSTRY Goes for Broke

With a new Sunday-night time slot and Game of Thrones's Kit Harington co-starring, can this buzzy GEN-Z FINANCE DRAMA finally break out?

THE SECRET SAUCE

As Marcus on THE BEAR, LIONEL BOYCE is the guy everyone wants to be around. He's having that effect on Hollywood too.