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
The (Kanye) West Wing
Imagining his first 100 days
On the Dodge
Retracing the life of Butch Cassidy, the American West’s answer to Robin Hood
Sic Trans Gloria
Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders
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
All the World’s a Stage
Met favorites get star treatment in the New York opera house’s new series
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
All the Write Moves
Transparency, brevity, color: simple steps for writing well
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
In Cold Blood: A Why-Dunnit
A closer reading reveals a theory about Truman Capote’s attraction to the story—and the killers
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
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