From French-handbag boutiques to rarefied-chocolate stalls, few Manhattan neighborhoods are more up to-the-minute than Nolita. At first glance, standing across the street from the newly opened Helmut Lang outpost on Prince, writer Lyndsay Faye fits right in. Fishing through her handbag, she’s slender and bohemian chic, wearing RayBans and a ... More

Bessie Smith made her name in the 1920s by singing the blues and living them just as loudly. In a new HBO biopic, Queen Latifah—both star and executive producer—tackles Smith’s trailblazing career and tumultuous personal life with a confident performance she says has been more than two decades in the ... More

Sophie Jaff’s debut novel might have love in its title, but the book also manages to encompass some less pleasant emotions. “I love horror,” says Jaff. “But it occurred to me that there wasn’t anything out there like what I was looking for. Something that combined all my favorite things in ... More

Despite the blood and the gore and the general mayhem that comes with filming Olympus, SyFy’s mythological drama, Graham Shiels, who plays King Aegeus, says he’s having the time of his life. “Filming the first season was a total dream,” he says. “To swing around swords and be a king ... More

Amy Berg has always been known as a documentarian thanks to her work helming films like Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis. In May, her first feature film, Every Secret Thing, will be released, making it clear that her formidable skill extends to stories of the fictional variety as well. In Every Secret Thing, ... More

It’s not easy being Dr. Frankenstein. Just ask Harry Treadaway who plays the famed literary physician in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, now in its second season. What appealed to him the most were the bigger themes of the show that pull each of the characters in. “The issue of life ... More

Before she was a fashion-magazine titan and before she was an author writing critically acclaimed books on the First Lady, Kate Betts was just another new college grad looking to find her place in the world. She could have worked on Wall Street or she could have taken a cross-country ... More

If you’ve ever dreamt about hosting your own talk show, director Shira Piven’s newest film, Welcome to Me, is for you. In it, Kristen Wiig plays Alice, a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery and decides to blow it all on her own Oprah-style daytime television ... More

No one ever called Róisín Murphy a shrinking violet, and luckily, she’s only grown bolder with age. The UK disco queen and fashion icon, who got her start in the mid-nineties as one half of the electro-pop duo Moloko, is returning to the stage with her anticipated third solo album,  More

If you’ve been roped in by Jane the Virgin—the CW show that won leading lady Gina Rodriguez a Golden Globe halfway through its first season—you will know Mexican actor Jaime Camil as Rogelio, the impeccably groomed, egocentric but warm-hearted telenovela star who turns out to be Jane’s long-estranged ... More