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In Search of Lost Food

Keeping track of the days may be a thing of the past, but when it comes to mapping out our next meal, it’s always go time

The Gold Standard

Is 1962 secretly the greatest year ever for movies?

Bad Apples

Laura Wade

The young British playwright with an Olivier under her belt is just getting started

Paris, When It Sizzles

The director of La La Land and Whiplash returns with his newest project: a love song to music, set in a French jazz club

TikTok Meets Its (Classier) Match

Murder, They Wrote

Darkness Falls

Broadway’s shutdown happened as quickly as the last curtain fell. Now, a lot must change for the show to go on

Three’s Company

In-Between Songs

Talking Heads, Daniele Luppi, Cat Power, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and more

All Quiet in the Forager’s Wood

A new book of photographs takes you mushroom hunting with the great American composer John Cage

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Difficult

The equine painter Sir Alfred Munnings bridled at his society subjects’ demands

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Not a day went by without Trump showing up late to his own coronavirus press briefings. A firsthand account explains what he was up to while the world waited …

Screen Time

Get Out

Take an (imaginary) trip with Frank Sinatra, Noël Coward, the Plimsouls, the Talking Heads, and more

You Look Stimmmmulus!

How the West Was Won

Movieland’s Most Threatening Cliff-Hanger

A pandemic has shut down the dream factory. Will it survive? As the weeks grind on, some fear it may not

The Pumping Station

Ryan Murphy’s new series is a seamy fantasy of postwar Hollywood—and the garage owner who serviced the stars

Quote of the Week

Found in Translation

How did a now forgotten masterpiece of American literature become so beloved by Italians?

Pool Party!

A new book captures the enduring allure of swimming pools

What a Wonderful World (Wide Web)

A new digital exhibition takes you inside Louis Armstrong’s living room