Michael Schulman interviews the director John Waters, known for such films as “Pink Flamingos” and “Hairspray” and the subject of a new Academy Museum exhibit.
James Ross Gardner reports on the aftermath of a child’s suicide in Utah, where residents battled over whether her death was an isolated incident or caused by racist bullying.
Françoise Mouly speaks with Matt Bult, the son of the late artist Wayne Thiebaud, about Thiebaud’s cover for the September 11, 2023, issue of The New Yorker, adapted from his painting “Office and Shopping Mall, 2005-2021.”