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Paul Cox’s Sketchbook

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

The Torch Relit

Lise Davidsen’s 2019 Bayreuth debut in Tannhäuser gave Wagnerians something to cheer about

Harry’s Own King’s Speech

Read by Prince Harry, the audiobook version of Spare includes Ali G impressions and off-key renditions of Elton John

Fine Tuning

In an interview, the music producer Rick Rubin describes the thrill of his first No. 1 album and working with everyone from Jay-Z to Adele

From “Mini-Documentaries” to Major Ones

Success, for Daniel Roher, is bittersweet. While he’s winning praise and awards for Navalny, the subject of his inspiring documentary is in a Siberian gulag

What a Piece of Work

Sure, I can write you a tell-all full of objective facts

Lukas Dhont

In an interview, the young director discusses his film Close, Belgium’s submission to the Academy Awards, which has earned comparisons to François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Re-Inventing Anna?

House arrest be damned! Notorious fraudster Anna Delvey joins the podcast to share her side of her incredible story

The World According to Hockney

At 85, the acclaimed English artist is on trend, launching an immersive exhibition in London that uses virtual reality to show new, rarely seen, and much-lauded works

Beyond the Grave

Ahead of his new solo show, the artist Scott Covert discusses his artistic breakthrough and sneaking into cemeteries to create his paintings

The Postmodernist and the Drowning Man

For Janet Malcolm, there was no ultimate truth—only endless interpretation. Except when her own credibility was on the line

Gina Lollobrigida

A “Russian Proust”?

Fifty Shades of Gropius

His great-uncle designed Berlin’s Gropius Bau, and he studied alongside Mies van der Rohe. Then he started Bauhaus. An illustrated biography tells the many-layered story of Walter Gropius

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

When a Doctor Becomes a Patient

Murder, They Wrote

This month, mystery books ranging from the combustible to the slow burn offer something for every type

Bach Re-Boxed

Alisa Weilerstein, cellist in excelsis, premieres an immense new collage that incorporates, in their entirety, the master’s six suites for her instrument

Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object

From Glyndebourne, Mozart’s Orientalist fantasy The Abduction from the Seraglio

The Plot Thickens

Notes from Underground

James Fox, ghostwriter to Keith Richards and David Bailey, reveals the tricks of his trade—and why J. R. Moehringer shouldn’t be blamed for Harry’s memoir

Why Is Connecticut the Home of Neo-Noir Murders?

Rich Cohen takes us inside the “Fitbit murder” and reveals why this tiny patch of America feels like Blue Velvet’s back lot