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Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Once upon a Time in Hollywood

In the course of their brief, intense marriage, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward lit the match for a cultural explosion in 1960s Los Angeles

The Bigger Apple

Getting the Picture

The Man in the Black Turtleneck

A hit at the Santa Fe Opera in 2017, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs has its video premiere in a new production from Atlanta

Touching Base

The effect of Jackie Robinson on the lives of average Americans of color is well documented. But he was instrumental for other baseball players of color, too

Old Flames

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a biography of the American painter Winslow Homer; a little-told story about Benjamin Franklin; and a memoir turned meditation on books

Child’s Play

Nicolas Party’s techno-colored art is on view in Canada. In an interview, the artist discusses fairy tales, nature, and the power of pastel

The Sages of Montecito

Harry and Meghan offer Netflix some business tips

Spires, Squires, and Liars

A contemporary of Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s traces Brexit, and the state of politics in Britain today, back to 1980s Oxford

Ways of Escape

A Grand Tour of Italy, but Make It Modern

The intimate, under-the-radar homes and studios of 20th-century Italian architects, artists, and designers, from Achille Castiglioni and Gae Aulenti to Giorgio Morandi, are as stunning as the country’s ancient and Renaissance treasures. And they’re open to the public

Tom Blyth

The British actor went from sidewalk charity campaigner to the star of a new series on Billy the Kid

A Guide to the Venice Biennale

The Inside Story on Anna Wintour

You bring the coffee; we’ll bring the buzz

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Shady Lady

Murder, They Wrote

Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Lost Fans of CNN+

Management snuffed the new network after 32 days. Yet there were plenty of fans out there!

Sergey Elkin

Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object

A tempestuous English-language Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren

Breathing Fire

Gary Indiana has a new collection of essays, Fire Season. In an interview, the outspoken critic lets loose on young writers, politicians, and just about everyone else