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Yoko Ono On Her Rebirth As A Dance-Music Star
The 80-year-old performance artist was a fixture on the dance-track charts in 2013
A Conversation with Childish Gambino: Nostalgia, Bitcoins and Advice from Tina Fey
The album ‘Because the Internet’ is out Dec. 10
Jeff Probst Picks His Top 5 Survivor Power Plays
The series host selects the best strategic moves from the show’s past 27 seasons
Q&A: Ciara on Being a One-Woman Army and Having a “Body Party” With Nicki Minaj
Viva Tony Bennett: The Singer on His New Duets Album, Taking Lady Gaga’s Call and His Dream Collaborator
The legendary crooner, whose album is released today, would love a chance to record with Sting
R. Kelly on His Single Ladies Tour, Bedroom Ballads and the Future of Trapped
On Oct. 13, R&B singer R. Kelly played the first stop of the fall-winter “Single Ladies Tour” in support of his latest album, Write Me Back. The best-selling artist behind hits like “Bump n’ Grind” and “Ignition (Remix)”—also …
The Iran Job Director on Sneaking Into Iran to Follow an American Basketball Player
German-American director Till Schauder spent five years following Kevin Sheppard, 33, a former American college basketball player who went to Iran to play as a journeyman athlete. The result, the documentary The Iran Job, is …
David Quammen Talks Life on the Front Lines of Virology
Back in 2003, a new virus that would be called SARS jumped from a bat to a civet cat to human beings, eventually infecting thousands and killing nearly 800 people. That’s just one example of the threat that animal microbes can …
Lee Child on His New Thriller, Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher and Wandering Heroes
“They’re all page-turners, but this one really goes hell to leather.”
The Master’s Joaquin Phoenix on Animal Inspirations, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Pleasures of Discomfort
“I guarantee if you saw some of the rushes you would think I was the worst thing in the world”
Cyndi Lauper Talks Memoirs, Music—And Seders with Springsteen
“Everything in life that you don’t understand opens up to you as you live.”
Scene Stealer Melanie Lynskey on Her First Leading Role and the Problem with Praise
She’s perennially a supporting actress, but in the sexy, funny new indie ‘Hello I Must Be Going, Lynskey gets to be the star. She’s worried you’ll hate her.