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
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
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
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
Piatti for Children
The Swiss designer Celestino Piatti’s children’s books are combined into a single volume for the first time
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
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
A Midsummer Night’s Meistersinger
From the Salzburg Festival, Stefan Herheim’s legendary staging of Wagner’s marathon comedy
