A Word from the Wiseguys
Twenty-two years after The Sopranos premiered, a new oral history revisits the gritty mobster universe the show created
The Magic Mountain
Don’t neglect your dreams this holiday season. Escape to the Alps with these songs from Beyoncé, Haim, Tems, and more
Out of the Blue
A century after Gainsborough’s Mona Lisa–esque Blue Boy left the U.K. for California, it’s back on show in London. So who was the boy in blue?
Built to Last
It sputtered at the box office, but 50 years on it’s clear that Two-Lane Blacktop is the great American road movie
Movie City
Songs from films set in Gotham, from the Ronettes, Harry Nilsson, the Bee Gees, Public Enemy, and more
The Magic of Jan Morris
Will we ever have another like the Welsh writer extraordinaire who managed to write as beautifully on Che Guevara as she did on the virtues of sneezing?
A Very Larry David Christmas
The man behind Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm breaks down his holiday routine
Behind the Couture Curtain
A writer reveals the sketchy details of an incident Coco Chanel went to great lengths to hide
Behind Enemy Lines
A new play revisits the bellicose 1968 Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley Jr. presidential-nominating debates with the benefit of hindsight
Have Yourselves a Larry David Christmas
Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting
At Christmas, You Tell the Truth
The romantic-comedy king Richard Curtis reveals never-before-heard details about the making of the holiday classic Love Actually
Holiday Tips
A guide to coronavirus-season gratuities
Theater Pick of the Week
From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages