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A Fiddler for Our Times

Mann, Uninterrupted

Aimee Mann, who provided the songs for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia and was one of the Big Lebowski nihilists, has a new album

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Body and Soul

Soul music to make you move, from Billy Preston, Prince, George Duke, D’Angelo, and more

Eminent Concordians

Artful Dodger

Jaden Michael

Colin Kaepernick meets his match in the star who plays him as an aspiring high-school football player grappling with racism in Colin in Black & White

The Boss of Ted Lasso

Hannah Waddingham has found stardom and an Emmy as the accidental owner of A.F.C. Richmond

Victimhood Goes Mad

The tribulations of the brainy and beautiful. Tiny violins, please!

A Man for All Seasons

From fashion to film to a stint at magazine editing, Tom Ford does it all. In the foreword to a new book, the author tries to describe how Ford became Tom Ford

Staff Picks

This week, don’t miss a collection of letters by writers from Beckett to Vonnegut; a history of the 13th Tour de France; and a guide to the world’s most peculiar foods

Home Improvement

Full Circle

Opera Pick of the Week

From Brussels, The Time of Our Singing, an operatic mixed-race American family saga, speaks to our historical moment with an eloquence that transcends it

Murder, They Wrote

Exposing Her Weiner

Huma Abedin claims she had never heard of sex addiction until her husband’s sexting scandal broke

Striking a Chord

Songs that register with us all, from LCD Soundsystem, Grace Jones, Elton John, and more

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Honor Swinton Byrne

The actress reveals what it’s like to act alongside her mother

The Lap of Luxury

A new memoir reveals the late Karl Lagerfeld in all of his complexity

The Wind Cries Jimi

The Decade That Never Ended

Flipping the Godfather Script

Mario Puzo was an avid gambler, novelist, and pizza eater. But there was one department where he could use some help: screenwriting

Taxi Driving

An illustrated history of the New York taxicab recalls the glory days of early motorized cars and spacious Checkers