One Maestro, One Diva, No Elephants
Riccardo Muti and Anna Netrebko put a Salzburg Aida over the top
The Fifth Beatle
While John, Paul, George, and Ringo became the most recognizable names in the world, Brian Epstein worked behind the scenes to keep the boys together. Nearly 60 years on, we revisit his memoir
How Genius Works
S’wonderful, s’marvelous … A revealing conversation with Sam Kashner about collaborating on Peter Bogdanovich’s final script
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”
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
Mystery Woman
Eight questions with crime writer Laura Lippman, whose new collection of psychological suspense stories is out this month
Dirty Rotten Scandal
A “headless” man, a woman in pearls, louche aristocrats, a vast estate, early revenge porn, and one of the most shocking trials of postwar London. Now it’s a new mini-series starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany
