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
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
Dancing and Dreaming
Songs to lift you out of this slump, from Thundercat, the Zombies, Steely Dan, Cymande, and more
On the Dodge
Retracing the life of Butch Cassidy, the American West’s answer to Robin Hood
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
Behind The Painted Bird
The contentious Holocaust author Jerzy Kosiński turned down every offer for a film adaptation. A Czech filmmaker finally takes on the story
Sic Trans Gloria
Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders
All the World’s a Stage
Met favorites get star treatment in the New York opera house’s new series
All the Write Moves
Transparency, brevity, color: simple steps for writing well
Tracking an Apocalypse
How The New York Times will cover the zombie invasion
Photo by Bachrach
A Who’s Who of the 20th century wanted their portrait taken at one family-run studio
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
