When Nora Ephron died of cancer in June, it caught nearly everyone—many of her closest friends included—completely off-guard.
By Frank Rich
Barclays Center opens in Brooklyn on September 28 with eight sold-out Jay-Z concerts, a middling basketball team, and a lot of super-premium branding.
By Will Leitch
Two decades ago, conservatives howled that Hollywood was engaged in a propaganda campaign to spread liberal values across America.
By Jonathan Chait
The residents of Prattsville, a Catskills town of 700, were used to riding out floods.
By Josh Dean
His e-mail subject lines, selectively excerpted, show a candidate who, though ahead in the polls, is still straining to recapture the old spark.
Jennifer Aniston’s strange run as America’s favorite spinster next door.
Shrug, shrug, shrug at the home team.
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Precedents for Ryan-ab intrigue.
At a Hello Kitty emporium with Oakland’s semi-Harajuku YouTube rap sensation.
Dorie Greenspan is opening retail bakery Beurre & Sel.
Fifty-one proprietors on the new merch they’re most excited to carry.
Newfangled mid-century Italian on Thompson Street.
Boozy cinemas, baroque nightclubs, and other wee-hour enablers.
Readers sound off on Kim Kardashian, Jane Pratt, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
A reformed naïf smites nonbelievers in The Master.
Pop’s nerviest duo indulge their horn-filled fantasies while there’s still a music business to bankroll them.
The sunny Katie Finneran finds her inner harridan for Annie.
The onetime literary “it” kid is still writing like he’s got something to prove.
At 88, with a Whitney retrospective ahead, what is the last great minimalist doing? Simplifying his own life.
His celebrated opera The Tempest finally washes up on our island.