Senses and Sensibility
From Beethoven to Bach, Handel to Homer, so many of the greats throughout history lacked the precise faculty their art required. What does it all mean?
When Menus Were the Main Event …
A delicious new book offers a visual history of menu design from 1800 to the present
The Yellow and the Blue
Led by their American music director Hobart Earle, the Odessa Philharmonic flies Ukraine’s colors in Berlin
Re-writing the History Books
In an interview, Maggie O’Farrell discusses how she resurrects women in her historical fiction
Smells Like Team Spirit
From Hollywood to Wales—a charming new documentary follows actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney on their quest to revive Britain’s unluckiest football club
Birkin’s Baggage
On the occasion of her new album, Jane Birkin looks back on old love
Crisis Control
Eight questions with Jonathan Darman, whose new book explores how polio prepared F.D.R. for the presidency—and saved his marriage
Owen Kline
The actor’s directorial debut, a film about a young cartoonist finding his way, reflects his own childhood spent studying comic books and haunting video stores
Is The Rehearsal the Strangest Show Ever?
Errol Morris stops by this week’s podcast to share his view
Weird Science
Are the people in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal knowing participants—or guinea pigs in a mad behavioral experiment?
Life on the Orient Express
She is remembered as the incarnation of her most beloved character, the elderly, provincial Miss Marple. In reality, the adventurous, globe-trotting Agatha Christie was the opposite
London’s 34th Billy Elliot
Caught live at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 2014, Elliott Hanna makes a legendary part his own
Long Live the King
Ahead of his latest novel’s release, Stephen King divulges his writing routine and explains why social media is a “poison pill”
Fifty Shades of Britain
In England, Channel 4 has brought the dating show to uncharted territory by featuring naked contestants
Super Star Power
More than half a century after Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol hooked up, their mystique endures. Now Edie’s sister Alice is making sense of it all
