Hidden Tunes
“Whatever story I’m telling, I tell it through music.” An interview with Bruce Adolphe, the mind behind the wildly popular Piano Puzzlers
Southern Gothic
New exhibitions at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery spotlight Black photographer Gordon Parks’s work chronicling the American South and more
Winds of Change
New exhibitions celebrate the outsize life and work of photographer Gordon Parks as well as the artist Khadija Saye, killed in the Grenfell Tower fire at 24
The Going Is Good
At 61, Kathy Valentine, the subject of a new documentary on the Go-Go’s, shows no sign of slowing down
No-Brain Teaser
A few questions that should have been on the cognitive test Trump boasts he “aced”
Push a Little Harder
Sick and tired of it all? Keep on keeping on with Joe Cocker, Curtis Mayfield, Charli XCX, Emitt Rhodes, and more
Jennifer Weiner
The author of In Her Shoes recommends the best books for the exercise-curious
007 Lives at No. 25
James Bond sleuths believe they have pinpointed his home in London—and discovered George Smiley was a neighbor
Catch Him on TikTok
The coronavirus has returned the late Bob Ross, who hosted the wildly popular TV series The Joy of Painting, to the spotlight
Sic Trans Gloria
Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders
The (Kanye) West Wing
Imagining his first 100 days
Frenemies, Cold War–Style
Dominic West and Damian Lewis take on one of the greatest spy scandals ever
Dancing and Dreaming
Songs to lift you out of this slump, from Thundercat, the Zombies, Steely Dan, Cymande, and more