What Madonna Knows
The artist is always one step ahead—and has a unique power to scandalize each generation anew.
The artist is always one step ahead—and has a unique power to scandalize each generation anew.
The year’s most essential series
Blink Twice anticipated the culture shift that defined the year.
Donald Trump will return to Washington flanked by an entourage intent on imposing its archaic vision of gender politics on the nation.
The singer has long stood for a brassy, strutting kind of survival. Her new account of her early life explains how that came to be.
Rivals brims with absurd excess, but is deeply serious about pleasure.
On reality TV, motherhood is turning into a jumble of feminist ideals and branded domesticity.
Her new memoir is a master class in how selective attention and empathy can insulate someone from the pains that trouble the rest of us.
The mass-rape trial in France exposes a case that’s both wholly unprecedented and dully familiar.
Disney+’s Agatha All Along is great fun—and fits almost too neatly with 2024’s key plotlines.
The actor has excelled at embracing female artifice—and then demolishing it from the inside out.