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Alfred Molina

The actor, currently starring in Uncle Vanya on Broadway, on his love of vinyl, New York, and not being the worst dad in the world

Devil's Eve, 1982

Before she was killed by her ex-boyfriend, Dominique Dunne had been poised for Hollywood stardom. The crime launched her father, Dominick, into his calling, covering high-profile court cases for this magazine. The tragedy also reshaped their family, as Griffin Dunne writes in his memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club

Of Gods and Men

Despite playing Thor for years, Chris Hemsworth is every inch a human being: an introspective family man with real questions about his career and future. We meet up in Australia on the eve of his favorite role in more than a decade in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

MEMBERS ONLY

Scott Sartiano's private club, Zero Bond, became postpandemic New York's celeb-friendliest playground, luring the likes of Taylor, Elon, and Mayor Eric Adams. What's the secret sauce?

RUNNING for His Life

His freedom in the balance, Donald Trump's campaign has been big on autocracy and low on the drama that marked previous runs. What might this newfound if terrifying competency mean?

IN VITRO VERITAS

More than half a century ago, in a dusty Roman library, men of science and men of faith gathered together to unlock the mysteries of female fertility. The answer: urine from the brides of Christ. And lo, those nuns gaveth

CITIZEN CHAMBERS

Until very recently, Jim \"Fergie\" Chambers was an heir to Cox Enterprises and one of the largest family fortunes in America. With hundreds of millions of dollars on hand, a zeal for revolution, and an innate sense for confrontation, he's becoming America's go-to radical communist

A Campus in Crisis

Dissent and defiance at Columbia's pro-Palestine protests.

MOTHERS OF US ALL

Paula Vogel's \"Mother Play,\" Shaina Taub's \"Suffs,\" and Amy Herzog's \"Mary Jane.\"

DEATH IN VENICE

At the Biennale, the past dignifies the weird, desperate present.

ARROW RETRIEVER

I am an arrow retriever. After a batrows are costly and time-consuming to make. It seems like a terrible waste-and maybe even a sin―for an arrow to fall to the ground without hitting someone. Even if the arrow kills somebody, it can be reused to kill someone else. As Randolf the Scot famously said, \"Arrows don't grow on trees.\"

READ THE LABEL

How psychiatric diagnoses create identities.

NEW TRICKS

An animal trainer to the stars prepares a Great Dane for his film début.

STUNTED

\"The Fall Guy.\"

ORIGIN STORY

What do we hope to learn from our prehistory?

PURE PLEASURE

The \"Radical Optimism\" of Dua Lipa.

PARADISE LOST

The search for a home that never was in Claire Messud's new novel.

WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT, YOU AND I

\"You'll never get away with this!\" Ultra Man vowed as he wriggled in his chains. \"You may destroy me, but you'll never destroy what I stand for!\"

STONES OF CONTENTION

The British Museum faces accusations of cultural theft-and actual theft.

A Marriage of Food and Fiction

In the kitchen with Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans

Beastly Matters

Where the logic behind the concern for animal welfare begins and ends.

TOWER IN FLAMES

What kind of right is academic freedom?

HOROSCOPES WRITTEN BY MY MOTHER

Your zodiac alignment this month is governed by Venus, the planet of intuition, something my daughter Bess seems to lack.

THE PHANTASM

Why was Judith Butler burned in effigy? They have a theory about that.

DESIGN FOR LIVING

Can converting office towers into apartments save empty downtowns from ruin?

THE BATTLE FOR ATTENTION

How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?

ON NATIVE GROUNDS

Deb Haaland faces the cruel history of the agency she now leads.

LITTLE OLD HER

Is Taylor Swift doing too much?

TRIPLE FAULT

A meal is never just a meal in a Luca Guadagnino movie; each bite is a prelude to a kiss, every feast a form of foreplay.

NIGHT MUSIC

“Stereophonic” and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” on Broadway.