Heart of Darkness
It was only after Robert Maxwell’s death that the world realized how far his criminality extended. Yet the riddle surrounding his final moments endures
Leading Ladies
Women used to be Hollywood’s stars. Today, even in the wake of #MeToo, the film industry is a man’s game. What happened?
Opera Pick of the Week
A new presentation of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs, starring baritone Johnathan McCullough and available for streaming by the Opera Philadelphia
Heroes and Villains
Stan Lee’s final days were as tragic and conflict-filled as his career was momentous. The comic-book legend’s biographer reveals the roots of his undoing
All in the Family
Like his daughter Ghislaine, the notorious British media baron Robert Maxwell was a monster. How did it all start?
David Mamet
With theaters shut, read what the playwrights are reading. In Mamet’s case, this means William Bolitho (introduced to him by Shel Silverstein), Christopher Hollis, and Pierre Berton
The Absurd, Redefined
Was Albert Camus offed by a K.G.B. kill squad? (Probably not)
The Good Earth
Stay grounded with songs from Tracy Chapman, John Denver, Bill Withers, and more
Adam Hugill
The 23-year-old went from training camp in Yorkshire to acting in Sam Mendes’s 1917. Now Hugill stars in BBC America’s The Watch
Downton Drabby
In a new podcast, the Duchess of Rutland confirms there’s more to being aristocratic than shooting weekends and idle gossip
O Comrade, My Comrade!
This year’s Russian entry to the Oscars dramatizes a Soviet-era industrial-workers’ strike turned infamous massacre
Fran Lebowitz Has a Few Things to Say …
The inimitable New Yorker on lockdown, Trump, outdoor dining, and more
The Masculine Mystique
Everyone wants a piece of Harry Styles
Future Shock
Eight questions with Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction, whose new book contemplates the earth’s precarious future
Island in the Stream
Rapa Nui native Mahani Teave learned to play the piano on her island’s only instrument. Here, an interview with the classical pianist
Opera Pick of the Week
The Metropolitan Opera’s 1983 production of Berlioz’s Les Troyens, starring Jessye Norman as Cassandra
