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it’s a rare thing to see a movie star utterly disappear into a role. In Conclave, Isabella Rossellini does exactly that. With a largely silent, self-effacing performance, the 72-year-old actor and model pulls off a remarkable vanishing act as Sister Agnes, a stoic matron who manages the legion of nuns that serve the cardinals as they struggle to elect a new pope. The sole woman in an A-list ensemble led by Ralph Fiennes, Rossellini’s character bustles through backrooms of the Vatican, a monochrome cipher in a sea of scarlet men. On paper, it’s a small part, with almost no dialogue and less than eight minutes of screen time. But as a nun who knows too much, Sister Agnes is a stealth weapon hiding in plain sight. A spy in the…

I’m 20 years old, cripplingly hungover and curled up on the couch in my disastrously mould-prone Wellington sharehouse. Like every other anxiety-filled Sunday, I’m feeling sorry for myself. I’m contemplating whether I’ll ever find a boyfriend in this godforsaken city – spoiler alert, I won’t – when my housemate bursts into the lounge room. Wordlessly, she thrusts her phone screen towards me, awaiting my reaction. As my eyes dart across the screen, taking in the bold orange text, my sleep-deprived (and probably alcoholically poisoned) body is filled with sudden adrenaline: Tinder, the buzzy American dating app, has finally launched in New Zealand. Like most single people who came of age as dating apps entered the world, I initially had mixed feelings about using an ‘app’ to find people to date.…

Lady Jane. Where do I start? My dog’s name is Bill Jane Fonda Cooper. The two things I love most in the world together as one. But Jane isn’t universally loved (neither is Bill). She’s been arrested, spat on, cancelled by the US military, blacklisted by Hollywood and threatened with being prosecuted for treason by the US government. But she keeps on going. At 86, she’s still raising hell and making banging movies about older women having fun (and yes, sex). First, let’s address the ‘nepo baby’ in the room. Jane’s dad, Henry Fonda, was considered one of the greatest male actors of the classic Hollywood era. Yeah, it’s gonna help when your dad is the Ryan Gosling of his day. The Fonda family name and fortune opened doors for…

What happened President Trump shredded the U.S. foreign policy playbook this week, as his administration opposed a United Nations resolution condemning Russia as the aggressor in its war on Ukraine and strong-armed Ukraine into a deal that would give the U.S. a cut of its mineral wealth. Under a draft of the agreement seen by The New York Times, Ukraine would contribute half of the revenue from future government-owned mines, natural-gas wells, and other natural-resource projects into an investment fund jointly controlled with the U.S. Missing from the draft was Trump’s earlier demand that Ukraine pay $500 billion for past American military aid, as well as any commitment by the U.S. to safeguard Ukraine from future attacks—a provision Kyiv insists is necessary to secure the cease-fire that Trump is negotiating with…

“Thanks to successful vaccination campaigns, most Americans today have never experienced a measles outbreak,” said Leana S. Wen in The Washington Post. So when they see that Texas has reported more than 120 cases of the disease in a month—mostly among children—“they might not understand why it’s so alarming.” Here’s why: The disease is wildly contagious and dangerous. Nine in 10 unvaccinated children who have contact with an infected person will get ill. Of those sickened children, 1 in 20 will develop pneumonia; 1 in 1,000 will suffer brain swelling that can cause deafness and permanent disability; and 1 to 3 in 1,000 will die. In Texas, at least 18 patients have been hospitalized so far. Two shots of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine are 97 percent effective…

EVAN HALE GLANCED at the clock on his phone: 15 minutes until his performance review. He sat at his cluttered desk, littered with diagrams and design notes, feeling the pressure of his divided attention. He had meant to prepare a list of accomplishments from the past year at Vitalisync, a Minneapolis-based firm specializing in precision components for the medical device industry, but his mind had been consumed all morning by his side hustle, Fritch Audio. Seven years ago, he had cofounded the audio component company with his best friend, Drew Larson. Fritch had recently been plagued with stockouts and fulfillment delays, and a recent shipment of scratched chassis from a supplier had compounded the problem. The past 48 hours had been a blur of frantic calls and emails to alternate…