Staff Picks
Don’t miss the story of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, one woman’s chronicle of world violence, and a glimpse inside Barack Obama’s White House
Sleeping Beauty, Re-awakened
The Vienna State Ballet’s new production of the fairy tale adds substance to the gossamer world
This Sam Adams Is for You
Eight questions with Stacy Schiff, biographer of everyone from Cleopatra to Nabokov’s wife, Véra, about her latest subject: Samuel Adams
Along Came Marilyn
A newly discovered letter by Arthur Miller about his young bride, Marilyn Monroe, reveals the playwright’s rookie mistake: marrying a bombshell blonde he barely knew
Hugh Bonneville Spills the Beans
Who knew Paddington Bear had a substance-abuse problem?
Poster Boy
The illustrator Paul Davis’s subtly Surrealist posters for theaters, movies, and museums get their own show in Italy
The Art of the Everyday
Edward Hopper was born in 1882, but as a new documentary about the artist attests, his sensitive paintings of empty storefronts and dimly lit motels have lost none of their poignancy
The Woke Mob
Because intersectional justice is a dish best served cold
Notes from New York’s Independent-Film Scene
The director Michael Almereyda discusses working with Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, and David Lynch
Kerry Condon
After two decades focused on her craft, the actress has suddenly become the talk of Hollywood with her role in Martin McDonagh’s latest film
Getting It Right
For the British playwright Alan Bennett, other people’s lives are just the dress rehearsal
The Home Front
After fighting overseas in World War II, Black soldiers came home to racism and violence in America
From the Front Lines
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new documentary gives an unflinching look at the brutality of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Ice Ice Baby
A salacious new memoir by John le Carré’s longtime mistress leaves his once thrilling spy stories looking rather dull
The Book of Life
The stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel A Little Life heads to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for its New York premiere
Grace Gummer
The actress, a member of a great acting family, is pivoting from theater to television
