After the Flood
Decades before climate change became irrefutable, the English novelist J. G. Ballard envisioned a much warmer world with vastly higher sea levels
Once More, with Feeling
Alan Cumming stars in a documentary about a 30-year-old Scotsman who went back to high school, posing as a 16-year-old student
Her Sixth Tony
The riveting Audra McDonald channels Billie Holiday in decline
Flash Back
Three decades on, Harry Flashman, the philandering protagonist of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman series, is still sympathetic
Portrait Mode
Iké Udé’s carefully staged portraits set contemporary subjects in a world inspired by the drama of Dutch old masters
Schools of Thought
Children’s literature has been hit hard by the culture wars. Anthony Horowitz suggests giving in less—and listening to Ricky Gervais more
Big Tobacco, but for Big Fish
Investigating the dark underbelly of salmon farming, journalists find echoes of the oil and tobacco industries
Murder, They Wrote
Killers, poseurs, and arrivistes … criminals with social ambition and a taste for vengeance dominate this month’s new mystery novels
The Hard-Crusted Softy in Winter, Part II
Ten years after Gore Vidal’s death, the one biographer to remain friendly with the prickly master reveals poignant details of his final years
A Master Trickster, Re-Discovered
Remy Charlip created fanciful books for children—as well as everything from theater design to choreography (including the “Air Mail Dances”!)
The Other Other Paris
Still trying to book a summer getaway? Here’s a city you need to discover
What a Glorious Feeling!
Seventy years after Singin’ in the Rain splashed its way through theaters, it remains perhaps the greatest movie musical ever made
Finnish Firecracker
Live from Helsinki: Karita Mattila, diva without borders
