Rhimes, Shonda

Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong)

Sometimes the outfits weren’t processed by Rikers in time for court, resulting in fashion meltdowns as she rejected subpar substitutes, one day delaying the court proceedings for almost an hour and a half. I once spotted a bag in the courtroom filled with wardrobe rejects, including a flurry of long sleeves and collared shirts, a […]

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‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length

The article that made the serial scammer Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, famous, published in New York magazine in May 2018, succeeded because of what it didn’t have. Despite the extensive reporting done by its author, Jessica Pressler, the most arresting thing about it was a sense of unknowability. Its portrait of the habits of […]

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