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
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
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
Murder, They Wrote
This month, mystery books ranging from the combustible to the slow burn offer something for every type
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
Re-Inventing Anna?
House arrest be damned! Notorious fraudster Anna Delvey joins the podcast to share her side of her incredible story
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
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
Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object
From Glyndebourne, Mozart’s Orientalist fantasy The Abduction from the Seraglio
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
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
Happy Endings
When Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along first appeared, it was a disaster. Forty years on, it’s a triumph
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
