Rebecca Mead

If you’ve got ovaries, you’ll go through it. So why does every generation think it’s the first to have hot flashes?

Amelia Dimoldenberg’s show has become one of YouTube’s more enduring hits, because it allows stars to match wits with a master of rapid-fire banter.

In a London warehouse pumping with dance music and movie soundtracks, Jadé Fadojutimi paints exuberant canvases all night long.

From the daily newsletter: A few recommendations for media about the monarchy. Plus: J. D. Vance got what he wanted; defending trans lives in a deep-red state; and the A.I. slop problem.

A new biography of the late British monarch is also a book about the dream life of her subjects.

Success came early for the late British actor, who throughout her career continued to captivate audiences with her edgy, glinting gifts.

At the Copenhagen restaurant, diners are served raw jellyfish—and freeze-dried lamb brain served in a fake cranium—while videos about climate change swirl on the ceiling. Is it “gastronomic opera,” or sensory overload?

She became famous playing buttoned-up Agent Scully. But in midlife her characters often have a strong erotic charge—and now she’s edited “Want,” a book of sexual fantasies.

It was a Tuesday evening in April, and I’d landed in Rome just a few hours earlier. Originally, Ducrot and I had arranged to meet for lunch the next day, but when she learned of my schedule she invited me to come over sooner, for a drink and a light dinner, noting in an e-mail that she “would be enchanted” to see me immediately. She opened the door to the apartment—where she lived with Vittorio (Vicky) Ducrot, her husband of fifty-eight years, until his death, in 2022—and I entered a spacious ha…

Testard, a French citizen who had moved with his family to the U.K. in childhood, hadn’t been eligible to vote in the referendum. But, like many people in his social circle, he’d assumed that Britain would choose to remain part of Europe. Testard was shocked by the result, and horrified by its effective legitimization of hostile attitudes toward European-born residents of the U.K. Testard didn’t feel personally vulnerable: he is effortlessly bilingual, and speaks English with the accent of Londo…