Staff Picks
Don’t miss a biography of the American painter Winslow Homer; a little-told story about Benjamin Franklin; and a memoir turned meditation on books
Child’s Play
Nicolas Party’s techno-colored art is on view in Canada. In an interview, the artist discusses fairy tales, nature, and the power of pastel
Tom Blyth
The British actor went from sidewalk charity campaigner to the star of a new series on Billy the Kid
The Inside Story on Anna Wintour
You bring the coffee; we’ll bring the buzz
The Lost Fans of CNN+
Management snuffed the new network after 32 days. Yet there were plenty of fans out there!
The Sages of Montecito
Harry and Meghan offer Netflix some business tips
Murder, They Wrote
Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic
Spires, Squires, and Liars
A contemporary of Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s traces Brexit, and the state of politics in Britain today, back to 1980s Oxford
A Grand Tour of Italy, but Make It Modern
The intimate, under-the-radar homes and studios of 20th-century Italian architects, artists, and designers, from Achille Castiglioni and Gae Aulenti to Giorgio Morandi, are as stunning as the country’s ancient and Renaissance treasures. And they’re open to the public
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
The Tenor from Wakanda
Curtis Bannister crosses the line from opera to action movies
Pass the Word
Netflix lowers the boom on oversharing
