Dirty Latin
If you want to know how Romans actually talked, then look at their obscene graffiti
Samuel D. Hunter
Darren Aronofsky adapted Hunter’s play The Whale for the screen. The playwright’s latest project, A Bright New Boise, premieres Off-Broadway next week
Ottessa Moshfegh
The novelist behind My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Eileen—plus its screen adaptation, premiering at Sundance—reveals her travel routine
A Rebel with a Cause
In the midst of protests in Iran, a London show by the artist Soheila Sokhanvari spotlights the country’s early feminist icons
Will the Idaho-Killings Suspect Walk Free?
Howard Blum takes us inside the investigation, and why a conviction of Bryan Kohberger is not a slam dunk
An Afternoon with Thomas Mallon
The author and editor of Gore Vidal discusses the influence of Mary McCarthy, his latest book, and the upcoming TV adaptation of his 2007 novel, Fellow Travelers
Lunch with Octavia Spencer
The actress joins host Bruce Bozzi to talk about how she made it in Hollywood, whether The Help could be released today, and much more in our podcast Table for Two
Marriage Stories
Works about marital strife made by artist duo Ed and Nancy Kienholz go on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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
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
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
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
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