CATEGORIES

To Match a Predator

Dating apps promise to hook you up with romance. But they can deliver con artists, rapists, and murderers.

The Point of the Past

Early on, Zadie Smith became something of a reluctant poster child for multicultural Britain. Her new, historical novel excavates her country's history. Zing Tsjeng goes along for the journey.

A Neighborhood, Authored

Revisiting "The Making of Boerum Fill.”

Elon Musk's Shadow Rule

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies

Though studios’ fall schedules have been shifting because of the actors’ union’s ongoing strike, which bars members from making promotional appearances, the release calendar is nonetheless crowded.

MAN OF STEEL

Finding material—and a family—in Pittsburgh.

THE AUTOPSY

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

THE THEATRE - Barn-Burner Sondheim, Irish Drama, Antic Musicals

Sharpen your pencils and grab your backpacks: autumn in New York is back-totheatre season. With the city as your campus, there’s a certain scholastic crispness to this fall’s programming.

ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha

“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” (opening on Sept. 21) marks a homecoming of sorts for Hendricks, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy two.

DANCE - All-Male Hula, a Tennis Ballet

Outdoor dance is nice, but there’s nothing like being in a theatre, with its dramatic lighting and proscenium.

THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI

“Matt Damon is a—Matt Damon is a f*g. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”

THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND

Is beekeeping wrong?

TELEVISION - Strikes, Game Shows, Novel Adaptations

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

MUSICAL EVENTS - REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL

Does the end of Mostly Mozart signal a rising disdain for classical music at Lincoln Center?

THE BIGGEST LOSERS

How the Bible turned a history of defeat into triumph.

ALTERED STATES

“Gran Turismo” and Fremont.”

BLANK SPACE

The sly enchantments of Hilary Leichter’s novel Terrace Story.”

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - Afro-Pop, R. & B.Greats, Hip-Hop Diversity

As a summer full of mellow outdoor concerts comes to a close, the fall makes way for multiplicity.

Sympathy for the Devil

In 1981, Margy Palm was forced into her car at gunpoint by a serial killer suspected of more than 30 murders. What happened between them over the next eight hours-and later while he awaited execution-was so unlikely that journalists and filmmakers have tried for decades to get palm to tell the whole story. Now, in a series of in-depth interviews with Julie Miller, a survivor breaks her silence

The Doppelganger Effect

It was more than a decade ago when writer and cultural critic Naomi Klein first realized people were confusing her—and her work—with another writer and cultural critic: Naomi Wolf. In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, Klein grapples with a phenomenon she’s started to see repeated in the culture all around us

The Curious Case of the Cardboard Basquiats

A show of “lost” works by the celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art was meant to be a blockbuster. Then the feds came knocking

Just Kids

In 2013, a bunch of unknowns made a tiny movie called Short Term 12. Ten years later, a shocking number have become stars, Oscar winners, superheroes, or all of the above. BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, LAKEITH STANFIELD, STEPHANIE BEATRIZ, KAITLYN DEVER, and writer-director DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON dish about the undersung drama that launched their careers

LIFE OF RILEY

DAISY JONES & THE SIX PROPELLED RILEY KEOUGH TO STARDOM EVEN AS SHE COPED WITH THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, LISA MARIE PRESLEY, AND A LEGAL BATTLE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER, PRISCILLA. NOW THE ACTOR, FILMMAKER, AND NEW MOTHER IS CHASING PEACE AND CLARITY AND, IMPROBABLY, FINDING THEM

Wherever he goes, LEWIS PULLMAN is in his element

Last fall, while filming Apple’s Lessons in Chemistry, adapted from the beloved novel by Bonnie Garmus, showrunner Lee Eisenberg made an on-the-fly change: The actor Lewis Pullman’s turn as Calvin, a progressive, introverted chemist in 1960s Los Angeles, was so winning that Eisenberg wrote him into more episodes than originally planned. Earlier this year, the Top Gun: Maverick scene-stealer wowed festival-goers at Sundance with The Starling Girl and at Tribeca with The Line. As he braces for leading man attention, Pullman reflects on life in and out of Hollywood.

Breaking the BINARY

Inside the fight to de-gender awards shows

The PLAYER

The Barstool Sports brand is known for its bro-ish excess, but the company has a woman to thank for driving its $550 million sale: CEO Erika Ayers Badan

PICTURE PERFECT

A new volume of portraits by photographer Slim Aarons, including never-before-seen work, reanimates a lost world

THE AMERICANS

On the eve of the US Open, VF  catches up with the next generation of tennis stars

VOICE-OVERS FROM "SEX AND THE SPACE STATION"

As I watched Sergei climb into his formfitting spacesuit, I couldn't help but wonder: Did I want a white Russian form cosmonaut or just a White Russian and a Cosmo?

YOU NAME IT

Carl Linnaeus and the effort to label all of life