The Heart of the Ocean

In journeying back to Avatar, James Cameron may have made his most personal film yet.

Glass Onion Isnt Trying to Trick You

According to director Rian Johnson, every twist in his sequel is right in front of your face.

Bethann Hardison's Many Lives

She challenged—and changed—a stubbornly un-diverse fashion world, ran her own modeling agency, and will soon have a documentary coming out about her life. Everything in her apartment has a story to tell.

Screen Time: Lane Brown

The Bots Hack Hollywood Alisn't about to change the movie industry. It already has.

362 MINUTES WITH ...Lizza Prigozhina

As New York's luxury market cools, a 23-year-old is helping panicked agents sell another asset: themselves.

The Group Portrait: Bookforum Was a Good Magazine

After 28 years, a beloved hub of literary New York closes its doors.

The Police Lawyer's Trial

For 11 years, Karl Ashanti defended the NYPD in civil-rights cases. Then he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.

The Best Movies of the Year

Film critics Angelica Jade Bastién, Bilge Ebiri, and Alison Willmore just want to see movies that knock them out. That was hard to find in 2022-aside from a few surprise hits.

Best Albums of the Year

The year in culture

I Made a Lifetime Christmas Movie!

Over 100 made-for-TV holiday movies will premiere this season Here's what it's like to work on one.

The Year of the Nepo Baby - An Investigation

Hollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words.

BEST THEATER OF THE YEAR

THE YEAR IN CULTURE

THE BEST TV OF THE YEAR

Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, and Kathryn VanArendonk on feeling desperate for new material-and shocked by how fresh a Star Wars spinoff could be.

A Low-Key-Outside, Exuberant-Inside Village House

Sasha Bikoff warned her husband, \"I'm going to go kind of crazy here.\"

Sex Lives: Allison P. Davis

Fifteen Years of the New York 'Sex Diaries' And I read all 707 of them.

152 MINUTES WITH ...Robert Gottlieb

The 91-year-old book editor waits for his 87-year-old star writer, Robert Caro, to turn in his latest book.

The Group Portrait: Taking Down SBF

How the website CoinDesk shook up the crypto world.

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice

Brittney Griner's Hollow Homecoming It's a relief she's back. Now free the others.

A Babka of Your Very Own

At K’Far, the classic sweet bread is flavored for the season and sized for one.

78 Minutes With... Roger Bennett

U.S. soccer's loudest cheerleader may speak with an English accent, but he has distinctly American ingenuity.

Seen: Jerry Saltz

Mind the Art Climate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?

Reasons to Love New York

At the end of 2020, when hardly anybody had yet gotten even the first dose of a vaccine and the subways weren't running overnight and the sidewalks of midtown were so empty you could text and walk safely and there was no place to go dancing or see music or very easily get a martini and burger at midnight, our annual "Reasons to Love New York" issue was written in the past tense: "Reasons We've Loved New York."

The Group Portrait: Twilight of the Tweeps

Elon Musk’s former employees pour one out for their company.

Park Chan-wook Leaves You Hanging

The director’s latest film is a murder mystery turned love story, but that doesn’t mean he’s left extreme violence behind.

I Want Everything

The Kathy Acker story tends to multiply as you write it.

Matt Rogers Makes the Yuletide Gay

This is not the time for thinking. It's the time for crooning.

Heart in the Clouds

This year's other aviator movie has no Cruise and a lot more feeling.

The Culture Pages – Buckle Up

In Jordan E. Cooper's bawdy Broadway debut, Ain't No Mo, no one is safe.

A Midwestern Homestead on the LES

Artist and set designer Steven Hammel has transformed his one-bedroom apartment into a version of his Minnesota childhood home.

A Few New Minimalists

They've serving naked octopus and turning broth into garnish.