This Killing Machine Called America

East Village artist and culture warrior gets an overdue—but very timely— retrospective.

Once More Into The Storm

A misbegotten King Lear that Glenda Jackson does not redeem.

All That Jazz And Then Some

Fosse/Verdon goes deep on its subjects.

Night Moves

Two downtown daytime joints extend their hours with delicious results. by robin raisfeld and rob patronite

The Half Billion-Dollar "Leonardo"

How an art picker and a gallerist, plus a couple of restoration experts, alongside a handful of scholars and museum directors, not to mention two auction houses, a Russian oligarch, and the Saudi crown prince, turned a $1,000 bet into a $ 450 million Leonardo Da Vinci.

The Political-Parent Trap

Domestic platforms what changes when the presidential field is full of mothers, not just fathers.

180 Minutes With Natasha Lyonne

Existentialism at the East Village Planetarium.

Not Looking For The End Of The World

A TROVE OF OVER 60 exquisitely beautiful, quasi-abstract coloured-pencil landscapes by Joseph Yoakum are emitting undulant optical auroras on Madison Avenue right now.

Lady Vengeance

In The Nightingale, the director of The Babadook returns with a tale of real-life monsters.

The Most Gullible Man In Cambridge

A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?

Who Killed Tulum?

Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.

The Cut 'June Newton' Was Never Famous

But photographer Alice Springs knew how to put stars like Grace Jones at ease—and her husband, Helmut, in heels.

Steven Soderbergh Used To Make Movies Like This......But Now He Does It Like This

The director on the high-speed production of High Flying Bird.

Take No Man's Censure

Ophelia gives Shakespeare’s classic a feminist spin.

Are These The Faces Of A New Brooklyn Dynasty?

Maybe, but the Knicks and James Dolan may have the last laugh.

A Brooklyn Heights Preschool Is Locked In Parent-Teacher Drama

What happened when the oldest nursery school in Brooklyn decided to become a little less old-fashioned?

Deep Undercover

A detective gets an unlikely assignment in BlacKkKlansman.

A Mini Master Class With Billy Joel

THOUGH BILLY JOEL stopped writing songs long ago, he’s remained devoted to the art of songwriting. Going back to the mid1990s, Joel has regularly conducted master classes at colleges across the country, during which he takes questions, performs, and shares advice about his craft—like he’s done here. Speaking from his home in Long Island, the man responsible for 33 Top 40 singles offered the following insights.

Booze Ceremony

The city’s new “Japanese bars” are a little Tokyo, a little New York, and a tribute to Japan’s elevation of an American art form.

Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells

How Is the End of the World Already Old News?Another ho-hum heat wave, as the Earth burns.

The Financial Crisis Broke The Modern World, And We Are Still Living In The Ruins

SOMETIMES YOU DON’T KNOW how deep the hole is until you try to fill it. In 2009, staring down what looked to anyone with a calculator like the biggest financial crisis since 1929, the federal government poured $830 billion into the economy—a spending stimulus bigger, by some measures, than the entire New Deal—and the country barely noticed.

With Or Without Amazon, The Tech Makeover Is Coming To New York

The tech business will remake New York even without Amazon.

Anjelica Huston On Why Jack Nicholson Doesn't Make Movies Anymore

The actress on growing up in Hollywood, the price of beating Oprah at the Oscars, and why Jack Nicholson doesn’t make movies anymore.

An Education

A young film student falls for an older dud in The Souvenir.

Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End

A bulletin from our climate future.

The Trump-Loving Town And Its Favorite Undocumented Immigrant

The Citizens Of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Embraced Alex Garcia— And Now They Want Him Back From The Church Basement Where He’S Been Hiding For The Past 18 Months.

Soup On A Schedule

At new Korean hot-pot restaurant O:N, the appetizers nearly upstage the main event.

How Did Megan Thee Stallion Become The Hottest Rapper Out Of Houston?

How did Megan Thee Stallion become the hottest rapper out of Houston? She got it from her mama.

68 Minutes With … David Brooks

The conservative columnist takes a look inside his soul. But what does he see?

The City

The Man Glitterbombing New York Politics Corey Johnson wants to empower the City Council. With panache.