The Talk Of The Town
Culling the Kim’s Video Mother Lode
“Interview with a Vampire”? Out. Snuff compilation? In. The cinematographer Sean Price Williams sorts the dusty stock of the legendary movie-rental store in a FiDi basement.
By Naomi Fry
The Evanescent Art of the Sandcastle
In a new book, “The Work of Art,” Adam Moss, the former editor-in-chief of New York magazine, draws out artists on what makes them make art.
By Michael Schulman
Hearing the Voices of Grenfell Tower
The survivors of the deadly 2017 London fire speak in a theatre piece opening at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
By Rebecca Mead
The Death Valley Lake That’s Gone in a Flash
Lake Manly forms in Badwater Basin only after especially heavy rains. Paddlers grab their paddles and go.
By Meg Bernhard
Donald Trump’s Very Busy Court Calendar
The first criminal trial of a former President starts this week. After all the legal posturing, the action will finally get real—that’s the theory, anyway.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
Maya Hawke Goes Back to School
The “Stranger Things” actress, and college dropout, explains why she visited her brother at Brown before writing her new studio album, “Chaos Angel.”
By Rachel Syme
Signs of the New Season
Girl Scout cookie surplus, skimpy-clothes anxiety? It must be spring!
By Emily Flake
Joe Biden and U.S. Policy Toward Israel
After six months of war, has Israel’s killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers compelled the President to do more to save lives in Gaza?
By Evan Osnos
Mike Tyson Enters His Renaissance-Man Period
The fifty-seven-year-old boxer, weed mogul, and actor—he stars in “Asphalt City” opposite Sean Penn—perspires, philosophizes, prepares for his fight with Jake Paul.
By Ben McGrath
Waking Up to a New York City Earthquake
After the most powerful quake in more than a century, the city was full of stories, arm-waving, and whispers of California.
By Sarah Larson