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Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Sick or Genius?

Directors can’t stop making movies about tortured artists

All Roads Lead to Claudia Cardinale

The Yin and Yang of 1960s Britain

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Chasing Vermeer

Ellroy Confidential

Ada “Bricktop” Smith

The forgotten queen of Jazz Age Montmartre

The Story Behind the Armie Hammer Story

Author James Kirchick takes listeners inside his reporting, and what it was like to speak with the actor

To Catch a Klimt

Two long-hidden, hugely expensive, and very rare paintings by Gustav Klimt have suddenly popped up in Asia. Who’s the elusive art adviser behind them?

Heart of Gold

Richard Cœur de Lion returns to the Royal Opera House at Versailles for the first time since the French Revolution

Rock of Ages

Blonde Ambition

In an interview, Pamela Anderson discusses Hugh Hefner, the sex tape with Tommy Lee, and her five failed marriages

Growing Up Gilman

Dirty Latin

If you want to know how Romans actually talked, then look at their obscene graffiti

Ottessa Moshfegh

The novelist behind My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Eileen—plus its screen adaptation, premiering at Sundance—reveals her travel routine

Samuel D. Hunter

Darren Aronofsky adapted Hunter’s play The Whale for the screen. The playwright’s latest project, A Bright New Boise, premieres Off-Broadway next week

A Life Less Ordinary

One Fine Morning stars Léa Seydoux as a woman seeking to balance her everyday obligations with a passionate affair. Its director, Mia Hansen-Løve, tells how the film came to be

Marriage Stories

Works about marital strife made by artist duo Ed and Nancy Kienholz go on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Lunch with Octavia Spencer

The actress joins host Bruce Bozzi to talk about how she made it in Hollywood, whether The Help could be released today, and much more in our podcast Table for Two

Will the Idaho-Killings Suspect Walk Free?

Howard Blum takes us inside the investigation, and why a conviction of Bryan Kohberger is not a slam dunk

America First

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Paul Cox’s Sketchbook