Ariel Levy

The “Pose” actress and queer-TV trailblazer was embraced by the drag demimonde in her ferocious days but has a gentle vibe in person.

Killjoy’s Kastle mines the culture’s worst fears about feminists, with a cast of “Polyamorous Vampiric Grannies,” “Ball Bustas,” and “demented women’s-studies professors.”

Does hurting make us human?

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

“I found that really gratifying,” Shriver said, as she considered her prescience, one recent afternoon in London. Since the lockdown went into effect, she has been sequestered with her husband, Jeff Williams, at their row house in Bermondsey. It is a modest, comfortable place, decorated with thrift-store finds and small ceramic sculptures—smooth, faceless figures—that Shriver made, along with memorabilia that Williams has gathered in his decades as a jazz drummer. But Shriver was not feeling coz…

From Doyle, this is apostasy. She has a sticky note on her bathroom mirror that reads “Feel It All.” In her most recent memoir, “Untamed,” she writes, “Every great spiritual teacher tells us the same story about humanity and pain: Don’t avoid it. You need it to evolve, to become.” During a Goop video chat in the early days of quarantine, Doyle advised Gwyneth Paltrow, “All feelings are for feeling.” Doyle, who is forty-four, has always espoused experiencing vividly all that is beautiful and brut…

Should we treat infants more like adults?

A comic adapts her bawdy, bodily routines to marriage and parenthood.

For decades, the painter has provoked viewers with raunchy, virtuosic, mysterious images.

The co-founder of Paper magazine recounts Kim Kardashian’s famous photo shoot and serving Jackie Kennedy.