All the World’s a Stage
Met favorites get star treatment in the New York opera house’s new series
In Cold Blood: A Why-Dunnit
A closer reading reveals a theory about Truman Capote’s attraction to the story—and the killers
The Sun, the Moon, and the Star
Eve Hewson takes on her biggest role, in the adaptation of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Luminaries
Photo by Bachrach
A Who’s Who of the 20th century wanted their portrait taken at one family-run studio
Tracking an Apocalypse
How The New York Times will cover the zombie invasion
All the Write Moves
Transparency, brevity, color: simple steps for writing well
Cry in Your Craft Beer
Country music for people who don’t like country music, from Gary Stewart, Joan Baez, Roy Orbison, Unicorn, and more
Roth Unbound
“He could love and hate and rage with the best of them”: a close friend of Philip Roth’s remembers the enigmatic writer
La Vie en Rose
Nick Knight’s floral photographs are on view now at Waddesdon Manner
Higher Ground
If the future’s where you’re headed, Emmylou Harris, Richie Havens, Cowboy Junkies, Joe Henry, and others will light the path
Fashion is the New Black
This month, exhibitions on Parisian shoe designer Christian Louboutin, Palm Beach fixture Lilly Pulitzer, and more
Study in Scarlet
A first look at Joe McCarthy’s just opened archive casts the infamous senator as a precursor to Trump
Dawn Porter
The filmmaker known for exposing racial injustice has a new documentary on John Lewis
All That Jazz
A visual history traces the genre from its 19th-century roots in blues-and-ragtime New Orleans to the present day
