CATEGORIES
What Am I Without You?
Two lives merged by immigration and illness.
Next Generation Leaders – U.K. – Florence Pugh – Saving the Movie Star From Extinction
Trendsetters and trailblazers guiding who are the way to a brighter future
Plaza Suite
Yes, she can play deadpan millennial chaos like nobody else. But Aubrey Plaza has shown all kinds of range on the road from Parks and Recreation to The White Lotus. Now she's in league with both Marvel and Francis Ford Coppola
Rags and Riches
Television's über-wealthy communicate their status through looks both flashy and deceptively casual
The Oligarch's Passport
In 2015, Portugal opened its doors to foreigners whose jewish ancestors had been expelled during the inquisition. Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich used his heritage to gain entry to the country and an all-access pass to the eu-exposing deep flaws in a well-intentioned policy
An Idol Mind
As The Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye leveraged an auteur-scale vision to become an unlikely megastar. With a seamy Hollywood fantasia of an HBO series on the way, he's realizing his grandest ambition
Face FORWARD
The most sought-after facialists deploy a mix of high-tech wizardry and lo-fi creature comforts for their captive audiences
OBJECT LESSONS
A tribute to the inanimate key players in four major Emmy contenders
LOST ILLUSIONS
IT WAS A GRIPPING, GROUNDBREAKING LOST DEVOLVED INTO SUCH SMASH, BUT LOST DEVOLVED INTO SUCH A TOXIC PRODUCTION THAT EVEN CO-SHOWRUNNER DAMON LINDELOF NOW SAYS OF HIS LEADERSHIP: \"I FAILED.\" IN A POWERFUL EXCERPT FROM HER NEW BOOK, MAUREEN RYAN OPENS THE HATCH
GREENROOM With a View
I come from a family of TV talking heads. Who am I to break with tradition?
The Hangover
Billions in losses. Sweeping layoffs and restructuring. A writers strike. Now that the streaming bubble has burst, the TV industry has woken up with an excruciating headache
Such a Fun Age
INSIDE THE PLAN TO CONVINCE VOTERS THAT JOE BIDEN CAN HANDLE FOUR MORE YEARS
Bloody HELL!
Succession is actually a farce, not a drama-and just one example of how the British comedy invasion is being televised
MACHINE DREAMS
The creator of the beloved cult hit Dickinson on how she learned to stop worrying and love AI
BATTLE HYMN
Long before Ron DeSantis made the regulation of college curricula a stump-speech talking point, WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. launched a conservative crusade to transform universities into bastions of right-wing ideology
THE TRIALS OF ED SHEERAN
Who owns a groove?
THE PIT AND THE PODIUM
Gustavo Dudamel, at the Philharmonic, and Nathalie Stutzmann, at the Met.
PLEASANT SORROWS
The mysticism of Paul Simon.
SOUL SURVIVORS
A trove of unreleased songs reveals a hidden history of Stax.
POP UP
Kim Petras has dreamed of superstardom since she was a teen-ager. Has her moment arrived?
Do You Love Me? Hila Blum
The first time I saw my granddaughters, I was standing across the street, didn’t dare go any closer.
NO MORE RULES
The long afterlife of libertarianism.
SHOOTING STAR
Christine and the Queens’ restless self-inventions.
LETTING GO
What women writers give up in order to come into their own.
FRONT MAN
Matty Healy, of the 1975, remains torn between the heartfelt and the arch.
Lesser-Known Postpartum Mood Disorders
Shouts & Murmurs
THE CURRENT CINEMA SNIPPY
“You Hurt My Feelings” and “Master Gardener.”
THE MOZART EFFECT
The composer in his time, and ours.
SUCCESSION
Dynasty as the engine of human history.
THE CONTROL OF NATURE ROOT AND BRANCH
What we owe our trees.