Diva’s Welcome Back
An interview with French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, whose Le Soulier de Satin, based on the play by Paul Claudel, marks the Paris Opera’s reopening
Opera Pick of the Week
Anthony Davis commemorates the massacre that rocked Tulsa 100 years ago with Fire Across the Tracks, part of the Tulsa Opera’s pandemic recital program Greenwood Overcomes
The New Williamsburg
Hasidim brought “the Jerusalem of America” to South Williamsburg after the Holocaust. All these years later, they’re on the move again
Short List
Books to read this week, from Robert Kanigel’s biography of Milman Parry, the man who reanimated Homer, to novels by Edmund de Waal and Bina Bernard
Call His Agent!
The French talent agent who turned his frustrations into a hit TV series
The Write Stuff
Eight questions with Michael Lewis, author of a new book on the pandemic, about writing, luck, and why George W. Bush isn’t all bad
Paris When It Sizzles
What’s more dazzling than Paris? Seeing it from above …
Does Bill Gates Have a Camilla Problem?
And will a jilted Melinda plot revenge with the First Wives of Tech Club?
Stoop Slide
Brush up on your boogying with these numbers from Brett Dennen, Mathien, Haim, Mayer Hawthorne, and more
Shamier Anderson
The actor toughed it out in L.A. until he got his big break. Now he’s giving back with a nonprofit that encourages aspiring actors in Toronto’s inner city
The Happiness Equation
When it comes to world happiness, the Nordic countries are the gold standard. Here’s what the rest of us can make of our abysmal numbers
Opera Pick of the Week
A digital reboot of the Houston Grand Opera’s Marian’s Song features a libretto by the city’s first Black poet laureate
Flying Lessons
The author of a new book on Virgin Galactic didn’t have to look far for inspiration—like Virgin’s lead test pilot, his dad was a fighter pilot and Top Gun grad
Fifty Shades of Downing Street
A British aide who worked with Dominic Cummings on the Brexit campaign is writing an erotic novel based on her time in politics
