George Clooney Is Happy to Pour You a Drink
He’s 60 and his hair is more salt than pepper now, but the actor–director–tequila baron still has plenty to say
Hallmark Endings
The Hallmark Channel has transformed Christmas into countless variations on one winning formula. Herewith, a few plot-twist suggestions to keep things interesting
Charge of the Minutemen
Before The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, there was Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s “brain-changing” news-radio satire, On the Hour
A Merry Coronavirus Christmas
A warning from Santa Claus before he climbs onto his sleigh
The Only Podcast You Need
Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting
Tye Sheridan
The 25-year-old stars opposite Ben Affleck in George Clooney’s coming-of-age film, The Tender Bar
See for Yourself
A collection of songs that will help you consider whether you are—or are at least part of—a work of art
Opera Pick of the Week
From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D
Tough Luck
Revisiting Lucky Jim, which Kingsley Amis wrote in collaboration with Philip Larkin before the friends fell out, a writer uncovers equal parts humor and spite
Miami Vice
Downtown New York’s cool set and crypto bros decamped to Miami for a weekend of parties (and some art, where they could fit it in)
The Only Podcast You Need
Tune out the world and tune in to Morning Meeting
Virginie Efira
The Belgian actress gives a rattling performance as a manipulative nun in Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta
Song Cycle
Music that forms a world apart from this mad one, from Koko Taylor, Janis Joplin, Rod Stewart, Doug Sahm, and more
Nanny Diaries
A new book tells the story of Vivian Maier, the 20th-century nanny who led a secret life as a street photographer
Boeing’s Double Game
Why was a sole Boeing employee criminally charged in the 737 MAX debacle that cost 346 lives and at least $21 billion?
Crown of Thorns
A new book reveals the identity of the royal whom Meghan and Harry called out in their Oprah interview. Hint: he’s next in line to the throne
And Five, Six, Seven, Eight!
Lovers of Sondheim bolted to this gritty piano bar in Greenwich Village to grieve—and sing!
A Four de Force
The sole performer onstage, actor and director Ralph Fiennes brings T. S. Eliot’s words to life and into the now
