CATEGORIES

Shades of stardom

Sandra Hüller is in two riveting films this awards season, the moral thriller Anatomy of a Fall and the Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. The German actor isn't after the spotlight-but she may not have a choice

The Frenchie Revolution

Money, murder, fur. Welcome to the war over America's most popular dog

The Ascendant

Jesmyn Ward, double national book award winner and best-selling author, returns to fiction with the haunting, beautiful Let Us Descend

Greta Gerwig – The Great

With Barbie, Greta Gerwig injected billions into the box office and joy back into Hollywood. If she has her way and there's every reason to think she will-she'll be doing the same thing for the next 40 years

Case Study

Lipstick tubes have taken on outsize personas, from status objects to conversation pieces

6 questions - Narges Mohammadi

Narges Mohammadi The Nobel Peace Prize winner tells Angelina Jolie about life in an Iranian prison, the roots of the protest movement, and what gives her hope

INDEPENDENT Streak

With two wildly different movies in the Oscar race, producer Christine Vachon is an iconoclast who’s become an icon

OUTFOXED

Rupert Murdoch dumping Tucker Carlson wasn’t about one thing. It was everything

SPEECH Bubble

Bari Weiss peers into Hollywood’s soul as she puts cultural controversies on the stage By Emily Jane Fox

THE VIOLENCE OF THE RAMS

A lamb enters the fold.

ARE YOU ENTERTAINED?

Barbra Streisand writes the mother of all memoirs.

UPPER CRUST

How pizza became New Haven's calling card.

POINT BLANK

How do you tell the story of a murder you don't remember?

THE FALL

Tumbling out of a bedroom window.

CONDUCT UNBECOMING

THE CURRENT CINEMA

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Joyce Carol Oates's relentless search for a self.

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

\"Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,\" \"Scene Partners,\" and \"Waiting for Godot.\"

GHOST, WRITER

When a friend died, she left behind a novel that needed finishing.

BIG LOVE

Chris Stapleton's case for affairs of the heart.

It's So Easy to Be Wrong

In Lexi Freiman’s latest novel, a writer gets canceled— and decides to lean all the way in.

Artists and Collectors Turn on Each Other

The Artforum letter was just the start.

Fiction – According to Alice

My name is Alice and I was born from an egg that fell out of Mommy’s butt. My mommy’s name is Alice. My mommy’s mommy was also named Alice.

The Critics – Books– Your Lying Eyes

People now use A.I. to generate fake videos indistinguishable from real ones. How much does it matter?

A Critic at Large – Made You Look

The desert illusions of the Sphere and "City.”

TABLES FOR TWO

Lagos TSQ_ 727 Seventh Ave.

IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES

Does facial-recognition technology lead police to ignore contradictory evidence?

INFINITE ART

The artist Holly Herndon prepares for a world shaped by ALL.

GOINGS ON NOVEMBER 15 - 21, 2023

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

THE WAR ON CHAPLIN

Why the Tramp had to be brought low.

REALITY BITES

“The Curse,” on Showtime.