Family Fiction
The Super 8 Years brings the Nobel Prize–winning French novelist Annie Ernaux’s high literary style to the screen
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
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
Lucian Freud, Lady Caroline Blackwood—and Me
My mother’s marriage to the painter was brief, and the hours she spent sitting for him were long. But the resulting portraits are forever
Happy Endings
When Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along first appeared, it was a disaster. Forty years on, it’s a triumph
People Who Don’t Need People
A growing number of transhumanists and radical environmentalists believe our days as a species are numbered. And they feel fine
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
Mr. Bad Guy
No one was a better thug on-screen, or off, than Lawrence Tierney
Paradise Found
Eight questions with Pico Iyer, whose new book takes readers around the world in search of paradise and its competing ideas
How Streisand and Redford Made a Casablanca for Boomers
James Wolcott takes us inside The Way We Were on its 50th anniversary, and more …
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
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
