Michael Cohen and Rosie O’Donnell: A Love StoryFor years, Donald J. Trump hurled insults her way. Now, she is BFF with his former enforcer.
Black and Country—Then, Now, and What Comes NextSome of the industry’s biggest talents discuss being Black and female in a genre not known for its inclusivity.
The Rise, Rise, Rise of Glen Powell: “I Started to Think, This May Be a Problem”When he was 19, Glen Powell made a bad decision straight out of an ’80s teen comedy: He threw a party in somebody else’s house in Beverly Hills without asking permission.
Inside the rise and fall of Ashley Madison: ‘People literally lost their lives’In theory, the internet promised, among other things, a solution to the age-old conundrum of finding a date. If you wanted romantic partnership, maybe you’d check out eHarmony. For fun and flings, try Tinder.
Jerry Seinfeld’s Speech Was the Real NewsWhy did the media focus less on his words and more on the 30 protesters who didn’t hear them? On Sunday at Duke University, the comedian Jerry Seinfeld delivered a commencement address that was, bizarrely, overshadowed in the media by a tiny, nondisruptive protest.
Against All Odds, John Green and Hannah Marks Made a Movie of ‘Turtles All the Way Down’John Green had major doubts that his 2017 novel, Turtles All the Way Down, could work as a movie. It takes place inside the mind of a teenage girl named Aza with severe OCD, inspired by Green’s own experiences with the illness.
The 15 Best Gen X Movies of All TimeGenerations are defined by many things: their fashion sense, their colloquial slang, their politics, whether they attended Woodstock, watched TRL as a kid, or owned Taylor Swift’s country album in CD form.
Life Imitating Art Imitating LifeI wondered, while I was watching Baby Reindeer, what kind of aftermath a show like that might have. The unexpected Netflix hit, written and directed by its star, the British comedian Richard Gadd, was based on his real experience of being stalked by a middle-aged woman.
The Dead Rise at the Venice BiennalePhysical fatigue is always a factor in criticism, but at the Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious recurring art exhibition, it picks up a few seats on the private jury of taste.
Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to ResignWhen Roger Waters left Pink Floyd after 1983’s The Final Cut, the remaining members had good reason to assume the band was truly, as Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.
20 Delightful Idioms From Around the WorldIdioms are by definition non-literal, but native speakers of a language rarely think about just how nonsensical these sayings can sometimes be.
The Grim Cross-Examination of Stormy Daniels Could Double as a Class in How the Law Mistreats WomenRead our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial here. “Court is not normally like this—this is a TV trial,” one veteran court reporter said to me Thursday morning, during a 15-minute break in cross examination.
That Old Back Magic: 9 Must-Read Historical Fantasy BooksSet in the Spanish Golden Age, during a time of high‑stakes political intrigue and glittering wealth, The Familiar follows Luzia, a servant in the household of an impoverished Spanish nobleman, who reveals a talent for little miracles.
Looking at Art with Peter SchjeldahlWhen I heard Peter utter this sentence at a dinner party, I knew I was in over my head. Peter, at these dinners, where no one was shy with opinions, would sit tolerantly, head tucked in, allowing us all to blather until our balloon heads had deflated.
20 Delightful Idioms From Around the WorldIdioms are by definition non-literal, but native speakers of a language rarely think about just how nonsensical these sayings can sometimes be.