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Shadowed by the Shoah

See No Evil

When Hollywood optioned Albert Speer’s self-serving memoir, the Nazi architect found willing collaborators

The Podcast Everyone’s Talking About

Smart takes, a new issue, and the inside story on the making of the U.S. version of The Office. Morning Meeting has it all

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Not Your Classic Hollywood Ending

The Game of Thrones finale is as controversial today as it was the night it first aired, in 2019. Now we know why

Welcome to Dunder Mifflin

Ricky Gervais, Greg Daniels, Jenna Fischer, Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and others tell the unlikely story of how the U.S. Office came to be

Annika Huett’s Sketchbook

Opera Pick of the Week

With the recital album Baritenor, the singer-scholar Michael Spyres mines music history for sheer delight

Blitz and Pieces

Blurred Lines

Kurt Vonnegut’s notes and early drafts provide the missing link between his fictional characters and his own personal life

Highsmith Confidential

Newly released diaries reveal Patricia Highsmith’s affair with a married woman—and an uncharacteristically tender side to the infamous author

The Lost Boys of Fiction

Oh where, oh where have the young male novelists gone?

The Boss of Ted Lasso

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Eminent Concordians

Artful Dodger

The Last Picture Show

The illustrious illustrator recalls the humble 1950s graphic publication with big dreams he founded on a whim with Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser

South and West

Shows and Tales

A new oral history brings back the glory days of the rock concert, starting with rock’s post–World War II R&B roots and going all the way through 1985’s Live Aid

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 Podcast You Need

Smart takes, a new issue, and the skinny on Squid Game. Morning Meeting has it all

Victimhood Goes Mad

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

A Fiddler for Our Times