A Cri de Coeur for the Moment
Alice Diop discusses Saint Omer, a drama of race and motherhood that marks the filmmaker’s first fiction feature, selected as France’s entry in the upcoming Academy Awards
Frida Gustavsson
The star of Netflix’s Vikings first emerged on the scene as one of the fashion industry’s top models
Happy Endings
When Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along first appeared, it was a disaster. Forty years on, it’s a triumph
The Re-invention of John Stonehouse
Succession star Matthew Macfadyen leads a raucous new drama about the stranger-than-fiction story of a British politician who faked his own death in 1974
Two Tickets to Paradise
George Clooney and Julia Roberts join host Bruce Bozzi to talk about their chemistry, the shirtless men at George’s wedding, and much more in our podcast Table for Two
Before Mozart Was Mozart
A Japanese director in Berlin gives the teenage whiz kid’s first operatic hit a dazzling makeover
The Phantom of the Royal Opera
There’s a reason J.R. Moehringer, who has ghosted memoirs for Andre Agassi and Phil Knight, was paid seven figures for the Prince Harry job
How Streisand and Redford Made a Casablanca for Boomers
James Wolcott takes us inside The Way We Were on its 50th anniversary, and more …
Paradise Found
Eight questions with Pico Iyer, whose new book takes readers around the world in search of paradise and its competing ideas
Carla Frayman
The jet-setting D.J. who goes by “Carlita” uses her classical-music background to curate sets for party-goers around the world
Mr. Bad Guy
No one was a better thug on-screen, or off, than Lawrence Tierney
Cleopatra vs. Caliban
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller trade off as Frankenstein and the Creature in the National Theatre’s 2011 take on Mary Shelley’s masterpiece
Not His Brother’s Keeper
In his long-awaited memoir, Spare, Prince Harry is reportedly so tough on Prince William that royal experts wonder if the brothers can ever make amends
Ghost Writing
In an excerpt from her posthumously published book, Hilary Mantel reveals how she channelled Thomas Cromwell to write her “Wolf Hall” trilogy
Paul Feig Raises a Glass to 2023
The comedy mastermind stops by Morning Meeting this week to discuss the art of mixology
It’s a Smaller World
Those we lost in 2022—a special Disney remembrance
