Cecily Strong on grieving a loved one while quarantined.

Before Colton Haynes came to Hollywood, he was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.

On location with the cast of Succession, the most interestingly terrible billionaires on TV.

“If you’re not aware of politics in any industry, you’re missing all of the ways to navigate it.”

Machaela Cavanaugh’s tear-and-rage-filled filibuster of a Nebraska anti-trans bill she knew would probably pass anyway.

Ten authors on the most divisive question in fiction, and the times they wrote outside their own identities.

A portrait of a toxic workplace.

I thought I could change The Bachelor franchise from within. Until I realized I was their token.

How NYU friends Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, and Emma Seligman made Bottoms — and won over Hollywood along the way.

He might be a fake, but we’re still real, and that should be cause for concern.

Reading her Ramona series aloud to my daughter, as my mother did before me, feels like accessing a form of double vision.

The actor always wanted his own superhero transformation. Now he’s buff, a Marvel star, and struggling with how much of his new body is his own.

In The Crown, she plays Princess Margaret in her tabloid-hounded middle age. Some of it seems familiar.

With “Daddy” and Slave Play, Jeremy O. Harris does exactly that (sometimes literally).

Actors, singers, directors who just happen to be the children of actors, singers, directors.

How the directors of the universe-hopping kung fu family drama Everything Everywhere All at Once became unlikely Oscar front-runners.

The most overrated metric in entertainment is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip.

In 2019, the question of if and how a song has been copied is an incredibly complicated one.

That it has been heavily criticized, reframed, and rewritten so often reflects a failure to understand female-power fantasies on a larger scale.

The star of Homecoming and If Beale Street Could Talk is, quite literally, dominating screens this fall.

From his living room in White Plains, the fashion writer on his new memoir and old friends.

Such an Ivanka.

The former MTV VJ partied his way through the early aughts, lost his career for a decade, and now, improbably, is being lauded by the Hollywood elite.

At 16, Kate Elizabeth Russell saw her book about a student’s affair with a teacher as a romance. She sees it differently now.

Since her audacious debut, she has been moving toward character-driven realism. In the process, she’s become the least interesting version of herself.

He would be called a murderer and a domestic terrorist. But to us, he was family. Our struggles with systemic racism growing up were the same.

This is a series not witnessed but felt.

HBO turned the story into unmissable television. So why does it feel like something’s missing?

They are two of the most in-demand performers working today. They are also really cute together.

“If everyone is resisting, how many forces can they possibly have that they can beat and kill us all?”

“I feel like I’m finally ready to blow it up a little bit and be like, ‘You know what, fuck all y’all.’”

[Aziz] is acknowledging that he doesn’t have to ignore being Indian to be recognized as a guy who is talented in America.

The director is interested in people constrained by society’s rules. In his new film May December, he makes it harder to root for the rule-breakers.

Why does the half-Asian, half-white protagonist make us so anxious?

Palestinians across the West Bank describe what life has been like since October 7.

I mainlined every episode of Netflix’s pitch-perfect teen rom-com, co-created by Mindy Kaling, and instantly wished for more.

The groundbreaking essayist and critic will write longform book criticism for New York, going deep on books, authors and ideas.

The actor, who died this week at 53, is a study in contrasts — a Bollywood star and Hollywood Everyman, sexy yet never fit for leading-man status.

We would love to be the people who helped short stories become the thing.

An excerpt from Elena Ferrante’s new novel, The Lying Life of Adults, narrated by Marisa Tomei.

The classic Hollywood genre never went away — it just moved to a different medium.