Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object
A tempestuous English-language Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren
Don’t Look Up
Coronavirus deniers are following the climate-change-denial playbook to a tee. Will the cycle ever break?
Breathing Fire
Gary Indiana has a new collection of essays, Fire Season. In an interview, the outspoken critic lets loose on young writers, politicians, and just about everyone else
Piatti for Children
The Swiss designer Celestino Piatti’s children’s books are combined into a single volume for the first time
Putin’s Enemy No. 1
Eight questions with Bill Browder, whose new book, Freezing Order, offers a captivating follow-up to his 2015 nonfiction Russia thriller, Red Notice
Love in the Time of Colanders
On air for 11 seasons, Frasier made David Hyde Pierce a household name, and now he’s back on TV as chef Julia Child’s adoring husband
What Is Princess Di’s Brother Talking About?
It’s the Bridgerton effect. Everyone wants to cash in on the U.K.’s great estates
In the U.K., L.A. Sells
Why do Brits love Selling Sunset, the tacky reality-TV show set in L.A.’s most ostentatious neighborhoods?
The Tenor from Wakanda
Curtis Bannister crosses the line from opera to action movies
Pass the Word
Netflix lowers the boom on oversharing
A Midsummer Night’s Meistersinger
From the Salzburg Festival, Stefan Herheim’s legendary staging of Wagner’s marathon comedy
Something Old and New
Before passing down their estate, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire host two untraditional art exhibitions at Chatsworth House
Forgetting Sarah Palin
While trying to understand the current Republican Party, most journalists have ignored the woman who foreshadowed Donald Trump
Staff Picks
Don’t miss a comedic cancer memoir from Delia Ephron; chronicles of a man retracing the steps of Alexander the Great; and the tale of an impostor journalist
The Man Who Invented Movies
While Thomas Edison is widely known as “the father of motion pictures,” a Frenchman by the name of Louis Le Prince actually got there first—and then disappeared
Enter the Beaux-Arts
A new book highlights the gilded Beaux-Arts architecture of turn-of-the-last-century New York City
Noémie Merlant
The French actress is breaking into Hollywood the same way she stormed Paris from the provinces
