The Pharaoh We Need

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo brings the sexually ambiguous monarch of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten to the Met.

The Impossibility Of A New Port Authority

Red tape is keeping the Port Authority, and New York’s landscape, stuck in the past.

Stripper Pole To Tent Pole

Roselyn Keo’s life inspired a major motion picture. What did she learn? What did we?

Marisa Tomei Got That Bite

Marisa Tomei is playing the trying-to-be-merry widow Serafina in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo.

Regina King Finally Gets Her Theme Music

You could say Regina King has been a superhero for years. Now, on Watchmen, she finally gets to play one.

Zookeepers Gone Wild!

Joe Exotic bred lions, tigers, and ligers by the dozens at his roadside zoo. He was a 21st-century Barnum who found an equally extraordinary nemesis.

Renee Zellweger Is Back As Judy Garland

After the Bridget Jones years, after the Harvey-At-Miramax years, after a long break from acting, now the star is ready to play Judy Garland.

60 Minutes With … Thatcher Wine

The celebrity book curator selling literary taste by the foot.

The Five Millennials Changing The World

An actually honest list.

Children Of Ted

TWENTY-THREE YEARS AFTER HIS LAST DEADLY ACT OF ECOTERRORISM, THE UNABOMBER HAS BECOME AN UNLIKELY PROPHET TO A WHOLE NEW GENERATION OF ACOLYTES.

Anti -Democratic Forces Are Winning The Post-Election

The bad news since the blue wave the more republicans lose, the harder they work to rig the game.

Mario Batali's Empire In The Wake Of Mario Batali

When the allegations of Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct came to light last December, the fallout was immediate. By the time the first story was published— including accusations that ranged from unwanted propositions and forcible touching to the kissing and groping, caught on security videotape, of a woman who appeared to be unconscious—the celebrity chef had agreed to remove himself from the operations of his two dozen–plus restaurants.

29 Minutes With Sherrod Brown

Is looking this rumpled a path to the presidency?

The Serial Killer And The 'Less Dead'

Authorities believe Samuel Little may have murdered more people than anyone in U.S. history. Jillian Lauren, the only reporter who’s talked to him, tells how he was caught—and why he almost got away with his crimes.

Select All: Max Read

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns out, a lot of it, actually.

64 Minutes With Installation Artist Christo

The installation artist returns to the scene of his Miami “crime.”

Listening To Estrogen

Hormones have always been a third rail in women’s mental health. They may also be a skeleton key.

Would Patrolling With The Border Patrol Change Your mind About The Border?

Some Border Patrol agents think that if liberal Americans saw what they saw, they’d change their mind about the border.

Folio: Yoko Ono Revisits Her Past

And the weather in her head.

Sandra Oh Gets Her Due!

After decades in supporting parts, Emmy nominee Sandra Oh plays the hero in Killing Eve.

Inside Blaze Foley

Ethan Hawke’s Blaze reconsiders an unsung country songwriter.

The Industry Imagining The Future Of W Magazine

Stefano Ronchi, editor of W magazine, has had just about enough, albeit in an unmussed, well- mannered, and not terribly bothered sort of way. It was the afternoon of August 9, the day after the magazine’s owner, the once mythically flush publishing firm of Condé Nast, had called a companywide meeting to run through various ways to save itself (most of which has already been leaked) after losing $120 million last year. Back-office functions were to be merged, seven of the company’s 23 floors at 1 World Trade Center would be sublet, and three magazines—Golf Digest, Brides and W—were going to be sold.

Tessa Thompson Knows People Can't Stop Thinking About Her … And Tweeting And Gifting And Talking About Her Love Of Goats, And Those Vagina Pants

IT’S UNCLEAR, STILL, who is to blame for the situation that occurred at Frank’s Cocktail Lounge in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. It could easily be the weather. The night air is the sort of steam-room moist-hot that allows for only one of two states of being: lethargic or horny. Even inside, with A/C on, our thighs stick to the bar’s cracked red vinyl seats. Or it could be the music.

Revenge Of Jamie Lee Curtis

In the new Halloween, shes the one hunting Michael Myers. Welcome to the age of big-box offce post-trauma horror.

Plowing Through

The Republican process was the agenda.

Critics

David Edelstein on First Man and A Star Is Born Matt Zoller Seitz on The Romanoffs Jerry Saltz on Eugne Delacroix at the Met.

Beyond Banchan

Atomix redeems the often-stale notion of the chef s-counter tasting menuwith Korean flavors and seasonal flair.

The Next Michael Urie

The star of Broadways Torch Song was worried about being typecast in gay rolesbefore he realized there were so many different kinds.

202 Minutes With … Rob Delaney

The comedian becomes an envoy from the land of bereavement.

Pay Attention

Marys Seacole and the political weight of caregiving.