Digital Demi-Gods of Dice
The digital quest to conquer backgammon, a game dating back to ancient times, has been won. What now?
His Last Picture Show
My Year with Peter Bogdanovich
Architecture’s Avant-Garde
A look at the transgressive styles that disrupted and remade 20th-century architecture
Denée Benton
The Broadway star goes back to her TV roots with Julian Fellowes’s The Gilded Age
She’s Got the Art World Sewn Up
Lucy Sparrow has stitched herself into the front rank. Now she’s showing her most ambitious work yet
The Best “Bad Girl”
A collection of magnificent songs by—and otherwise related to—the late, great Ronnie Spector, rock ’n’ roll’s original “bad girl”
How Genius Works
S’wonderful, s’marvelous … A revealing conversation with Sam Kashner about collaborating on Peter Bogdanovich’s final script
What Color is Your Parachute?
As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions
Writer’s Woes, According to Ottessa Moshfegh
The Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation author has a new short story reflecting her old frame of mind
New Year’s Resoluteness
Songs for the hopeful and indefatigable, from the Impressions, the Persuasions, and the Bob Dylan
Mystery Woman
Eight questions with crime writer Laura Lippman, whose new collection of psychological suspense stories is out this month
The French Connection
What is it about gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin, Maurice Leblanc’s answer to Sherlock Holmes, that makes him so endlessly appealing?
Witches and Wizards and Wonders, Oh My!
Illustrations old and new bring the world of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to life
Bethany Antonia
At just 24, the British actress is starring in some of TV’s most watched shows
