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Basquiat’s Ballad

Arlo Parks

The London-based singer-songwriter captures the agony and ecstasy of Gen Z

Hollywood Heartbreak

In which the star of My Best Friend’s Wedding forgets a dinner with Joan Collins and loses a “giant” role, all while trying to revive his career

Dark Words

Why did Eleanor Roosevelt stand by the offensive term she used in her long-celebrated autobiography?

Avedon’s Eye

Bloomsbury’s Naked Truth

Famed artist Duncan Grant’s “lost” trove of erotic drawings discovered under bed

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Bruce Wagner’s Woke Universe

After his publisher balked at his use of a certain word, Hollywood’s master of satire posts his new novel online for free

Nathan Gelgud’s Sketchbook

Daddies’ Girls

Barbara Amiel’s Not Going Away

Magic Man

The American photographer Rodney Smith saw the world through black-and-white-colored glasses

Seeing Things

Seamus Heaney’s biographer looks at what makes a poet essential

Bringing Up Cary

The actor’s early years—he was born Archie Leach in Bristol, U.K.—stayed with him long after he became Cary Grant

Rupert Everett Can’t Help Himself

The devastating male beauty of 80s and 90s cinema, the star of Another Country, Dance with a Stranger, and My Best Friend’s Wedding, plays a porno villain in the new British series Adult Material

Anarchists in the Kitchen?

What if The Great British Bake Off were an Antifa sleeper cell?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Graydon Carter on PTSD (Post-Trump Stress Disorder)

In this week’s podcast, Graydon joins Mike and Ashley for a discussion of what’s left of Trump’s brain

Charlotte Hope

The Game of Thrones actress on the difficulty of moving on from playing Henry VIII’s first wife

Out of Control

Filmed in secrecy in the months since the coronavirus outbreak, Alex Gibney’s new documentary delivers the true tale—and scope—of the U.S.’s failure

Duncan Hannah’s Sketchbook

This Land Is Your Land

Finding it difficult to recognize America? This collection of songs will remind you what the country’s all about

The Idiot Box

Keeping Up with the Sussexes—a first look at Meghan and Harry’s Netflix reality-show script

Killing Jason Bourne: Stoppard’s Secret Movie Scripts … Revealed!

Britain’s most esteemed playwright quietly contributed to the scripts for Star Wars, Schindler’s List, The Bourne Ultimatum, My Mom’s a Werewolf, and 102 Dalmatians, among others