The Group Portrait: Playing and Praying Together

The de la Mottes are big on TikTok. But can they make the rent?

Dynasties

Settling for Less What Succession gets wrong about Rupert Murdoch.

What Lies Beneath Shinkai's Skies

What Lies Beneath Shinkai’s Skies An openhearted romantic adventure about inheriting a broken world.

Camelot Is a Lot

Aaron Sorkin just can’t leave anything up to the audience’s imagination.

Parent Trap

John Mulaney is baby. Or daddy? That’s the conversation his new special has with itself.

'Hamlet Is Mine, Too'

James Ijames’s Fat Ham doesn’t just break the fourth wall— it bulldozes it.

It's Tubi's Time

How streaming’s weirdest player won the internet.

Now That He Has Your Attention...

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopic first book was a surprise hit. He’s using his second to ask harder questions.

$200 Just to Get in the Door at Don Angie

Digital sellers want to help you land the hardest reservations in town.

A Trippy-Looking Place for Making Your Life Better Through Ketamine

Randy Polumbo made parts of the Cardea offices out of mycelium.

Emma Tucker's Deadline

The new Wall Street Journal editor, recently imported from London by Rupert Murdoch, knew little about America, New York, or her staff. And then Evan Gershkovich got arrested in Russia.

The New Light Is Bad

There's something off about LED bulbs-which will soon be, thanks to a federal ban, the only kind you can buy.

How Stormy Daniels Sees It Ending

The long afterlife of a forgettable fling with a reality-television personality.

37 Minutes With... Paul Schrader

At Coterie, the Hudson Yards senior-living facility the screenwriter moved into to stay close to his wife.

On With Kara Swisher: Sam Altman

OpenAI's co-founder has become the public face of the AI revolution, alternately evangelical and circumspect about the force he has helped unleash on the world. Following the unveiling of OpenAI's GPT-4, Altman spoke with Swisher about what makes him "super-nervous."

Second Acts

Everyone Divorces Like a Celebrity Now The rise of the Instagram breakup.

Neighborhood News: A Rat Hunter Takes Bushwick

A vintage way to tackle a newly pressing problem.

The Body Politic

The Disaster of Trump’s Indictment Why the circus surrounding his arrest may do more harm than good.

Who Ordered All the Turbot?

This big flat fish is everywhere.

Grudge Match

In Beef, Ali Wong and Steven Yeun find release in feeling bad.

Just Don't Call Them a Supergroup

Three solo records later, boygenius gets the band back together.

Big Little Things

Sarah Sze’s interstitial worlds take over the Guggenheim.

Why Are My Secret Spotify Songs Following Me Around?

At bars, with friends, on TV, I kept hearing the same music from my “Discover Weekly” rotation. So I tried to peer inside my bubble IRL.

Confessions on Jessie Ware's Dance Floor

After a career of romantic tearjerkers, she’s got everyone crying (for joy) in the club.

She Can't Believe She's Still the First

Even decades of fighting for space in the art world couldn’t make Jaune Quick-to-See Smith lose her sense of humor.

The Case of the Fake Sherlock

Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler at murder trials, at forensic conferences, and on true-crime TV. In reality, he was a fraud. How did he get away with it for so long?

Nan Goldin's Happy Ending

The demimonde photographer has long considered herself a filmmaker. What happened when a movie was made about her?

Yaeji Lets Loose

The musician-slash-DJ is known for introspective dance music that brings the house down. On her debut album, she went searching for herself.

A Tribeca Loft Full of Mood and Mystery

"Everything changes in this house," says its owner, Grimanesa Amorós.

Knives Out The war for Waystar comes to a showstopping end.

SUCCESSION'S FOURTH and final season is a shining example of the best qualities of long-form storytelling and of narrative TV in particular.