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EMILY IN PARIS returns to Netflix August 15. For about as long as any millennial has been watching television, Darren Star has been making it: Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, [...]

Mehdi Hasan's aggressive interviewing style landed him a Sunday show on MSNBC. Until he started talking about Palestine. AS A MATTER of preference, Mehdi Hasan likes a smart opponent. 'It's [...]

ON DECEMBER 1, instead of taking their daily dose of the HIV medication Dovato, the playwright Victor I. Cazares filmed an Instagram video of the pill's funeral. They burned the [...]

HOLLYWOOD WRITERS AND actors are striking together for the first time since the Eisenhower administration in what many guild members see as an existential battle against a corporate class they [...]

Drew BARRYMORE IS barreling barefoot down the hallway to make it to the studio on time. It's a Wednesday morning in April, and this is the first of today's two [...]

In recent years, the author has been hailed as prescient of our political moment. This is the story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved [...]

LISTEN FOR THE YOWL that splinters like a live wire and you'll hear Karen O attempting an exorcism. Her shows with her band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, in the early [...]

The musician-slash-DJ is known for introspective dance music that brings the house down. On her debut album, she went searching for herself. In yaeji's home, everything has its place. We've [...]

WHEN LAURA LINNEY starred in a 2002 Broadway revival of The Crucible, her favorite part was Act Three, in which her character, Elizabeth Proctor, doesn't appear onstage. 'I would be [...]

JOEL KIM BOOSTER'S debut film is a deliciously bawdy, possibly triggering gay rom-com. He's ready to go into a cryogenic sleep to avoid the discourse. Joel Kim Booster is looking [...]

A FIZZY ALCHEMY can occur when unfamiliar faces gather around a table of food and wine: Are we becoming ... friends? Maybe it's for just one night, but on that [...]

Kumail Nanjiani would like to remind everyone about his brain, but I've brought him to the gym to talk about his muscles. He gets that this is all people--especially men--have [...]

ANTHONY VEASNA SO DIED UNEXPECTEDLY LAST WINTER, BEFORE HIS DEBUT SHORT-STORY COLLECTION, AFTERPARTIES, WAS RELEASED. EVERYONE REMEMBERS HIM DIFFERENTLY. I. THE NEXT LITERARY SUPERSTAR (YES, HE KNEW HE WAS THE [...]

FOR MOST OF HER CAREER, Jennifer Coolidge HAS BEEN SPINNING ROLES AS TROPHY WIVES AND DIVORCEES INTO COMIC GOLD. NOW SHE GETS TO SHOW WHAT ELSE SHE CAN DO. Here [...]

Mads Mikkelsen is known for playing villains in America and more nuanced roles in Denmark. He takes everything and nothing seriously. Before he became an actor, Mads Mikkelsen spent almost [...]

After a career-making performance at 17, Melanie Lynskey felt lost in the industry. It took years to find her way out of the wilderness. CANDY is streaming now on Hulu. [...]

OVER THE DECADES, Jane Fonda's and Lily Tomlin's careers have hopscotched through various social spheres and weathered political crises and middle-aged invisibility to return with a late-career renaissance during the [...]

I'VE BEEN EATING New York for half a year now, and while some nights have come close to perfection--Eyval's (25 Bogart St., at Varet St., Bushwick; eyvalnyc.com) dynamic vision of [...]

One Sunday in January, some friends and I went to drag brunch at the Standard Grill below the High Line. Anthropological curiosity drove us--we're all of homosexual, but not drag [...]

THE NEW EAGLE CREEK SALOON is at the Kitchen (512 W. 19th St.) through March 6. On a recent Saturday afternoon, amid emergency alerts for snow squalls, a dance floor [...]

If the musician has to reveal herself at all, she'd rather do it one short burst at a time. 1. On a bright November day, Mitski is waiting for me [...]

'Sohla?' the video begins. 'Do you have a minute?' The stars of Bon Appetit's Test Kitchen have so many questions, and Sohla El-Waylly is like their own human Alexa: Sohla, [...]

EVERY WEDNESDAY, Miranda July goes to her old home, a modest two-bedroom in Echo Park she has kept for over 15 years, and stays the night. Initially, she felt more [...]

BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, Laurence Fishburne was preparing for his Broadway return in American Buffalo, and well into lockdown, he was still rehearsing with his co-star Sam Rockwell over video calls. [...]

'I GET WILD DMS,' Ziwe Fumudoh tells me as she scrolls through her phone. There are suggestions for guests on her Instagram Live show, where she asks subjects discomfiting questions [...]

As outspoken as Thandie Newton has been throughout her career, there are still stories she's been holding off on telling. Not because she's shy, but because she's waiting for the [...]

MICHAELA COEL IS NOT A Christian anymore, but the spirit has never left her. The Bible is the reason she started writing. Her first poem, 'Beautiful,' was inspired by Psalm [...]

With Homecoming and Driveways, Hong Chau is landing roles that match her taleht. But the road along the way has been bumpy. You're not really supposed to notice Hong Chau [...]

JUDE LAW is looking at art. I am looking at Jude Law. He walks deliberately and unhurriedly through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as though he's doling out [...]

Every Asian baddie I know has been talking about Rice Thief, a ghost kitchen in Sunnyside that turns out batches of ganjang gejang, a classic recipe of raw crab marinated [...]

JOHN CHO HAD MANY HOURS to think about Spike Spiegel, the slick, droll, wild-haired intergalactic bounty hunter in the upcoming Netflix live-action remake of the genre-bending neo-noir space-Western Japanese anime [...]

THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH is now available (HMH Books). By the time Alison Bechdel sat down in earnest to draw her third book, The Secret to Superhuman Strength, she [...]

Daniel Dae Kim built a career by picking his battles, walking away from a job only when the inequities got too big to ignore. He still believes Hollywood can be [...]

Youn Yuh-jung's heart-shattering performance in Minari is likely to get an Oscar nod. She's been doing this too long to care. This wouldn't have happened in Korea, she thought. For [...]

Martinis and fries are the perfect pairing. In his inaugural dispatch, our new diner-at-large looks for the best place to enjoy them. THE RITUAL WOULD start with a text: 'Drink?' [...]

THE STANDOFF BETWEEN Bong Joon-ho and Harvey Weinstein over the U.S. cut of Snowpiercer had all the hallmarks of a scene the director might shoot himself. High drama. The Korean [...]

You could say Regina King has been a superhero for years. Now, on Watchmen, she finally gets to play one. THERE HE IS,' Regina King says in her familiar soft [...]

Quarantine culture began on March 11, when Whoopi Goldberg rattled out a greeting to a studio of empty chairs on the set of The View: 'Well, hello, hello, hello! Welcome [...]

And other problems, challenges, and vexing dilemmas that came up as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend put together its outrageous season-three finale. IN NOVEMBER, Rachel Bloom, the co-creator and star of the CW's [...]

No sound on the planet inspires as obsessive a fandom as K-pop. The 'Bulletproof Boy Scouts' of BTS have (finally, for real] imported that mania to America--all in Korean, as [...]

GET ON YOUR KNEES is at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. THE LADY HAS lost her head. We don't know when it happened, but she was found that way by two [...]

LULU WANG AND I are heading toward Coney Island on the F train one morning in early June, playing Two Truths and a Lie. I go first. I tell her [...]

ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE premieres on Netflix on may 31. 'This is the mall I lost my virginity at,' Randall Park says as he eases his aqua RAV4 into a [...]

Playwright. Provocateur. Grad student. A whirlwind day in the life of the author of Slave Play and Daddy. IN THE WINTER of 2015, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris decided to [...]

SIGH, GONE A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In By Phuc Tran A thoroughly Asian-American tension runs through Phuc Tran's memoir, ''Sigh, Gone'': [...]

* THERE ARE NO SECRETS ANYMORE. At least, that's what Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy seemed to admit earlier this year when they announced, during a Reddit AMA [...]

100 BOYFRIENDS BY BRONTEZ PURNELL. MCD X FSG ORIGINALS. FUCK BOYFRIENDS. Forget borrowed sweaters and airport pickups. The men in Brontez Purnell's book 100 Boyfriends exist on a subterranean layer [...]