Notes from New York’s Independent-Film Scene
The director Michael Almereyda discusses working with Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, and David Lynch
This Sam Adams Is for You
Eight questions with Stacy Schiff, biographer of everyone from Cleopatra to Nabokov’s wife, Véra, about her latest subject: Samuel Adams
Along Came Marilyn
A newly discovered letter by Arthur Miller about his young bride, Marilyn Monroe, reveals the playwright’s rookie mistake: marrying a bombshell blonde he barely knew
Kerry Condon
After two decades focused on her craft, the actress has suddenly become the talk of Hollywood with her role in Martin McDonagh’s latest film
Getting It Right
For the British playwright Alan Bennett, other people’s lives are just the dress rehearsal
The Home Front
After fighting overseas in World War II, Black soldiers came home to racism and violence in America
From the Front Lines
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new documentary gives an unflinching look at the brutality of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Grace Gummer
The actress, a member of a great acting family, is pivoting from theater to television
Ice Ice Baby
A salacious new memoir by John le Carré’s longtime mistress leaves his once thrilling spy stories looking rather dull
How TikTok Turned a Disease Into a Hot Brand
Inside the AIR MAIL story on Gen Z’s latest ailment. Plus, more on the new Trump tell-all books
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point
Early on, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA was just lonely. His path to the radical right reflects a larger trend among America’s youth
The Book of Life
The stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel A Little Life heads to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for its New York premiere
The Nuns’ Story
Live from San Francisco, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Poulenc’s gripping chronicle of the French Revolution
French Dispatch
Inside the life and work of Annie Ernaux, the French writer who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature
Warning Signs
After Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to escape Auschwitz, he detailed the horrors of the concentration camp in a chilling report. Why did the world ignore it?
Staff Picks
Don’t miss a coffee-table book devoted to big animals; a corrective to a Fox News conspiracy theory about WikiLeaks; and a chronicle of Vienna’s culture
A Guide to Frieze London and Frieze Masters
If there’s one person who knows the fairs backwards and forwards, it’s Andrés Perez. Here, he suggests what to see and do this week