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History on His Mind

Fool’s Gold

Open House

News from the Front

A Monster Among Angels

The Night of the Iguana, now in an eloquent production in London, is Tennessee Williams’s last great work

The Story of L

A noted French author reimagines Nabokov’s novel from Lolita’s point of view

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

Late-Night

Beck, Ray Charles, the Beastie Boys, Vans Morrison and McCoy, and more

Queen of Muses

The always extraordinary Patricia Clarkson on Sharp Objects, portraying difficult characters, and the correct way to make jambalaya

Class Act

Laura Carlin

The London artist whose illustrations and ceramics appeal to children and grown-ups alike

All Modern Women Are Jealous

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

In the Money

Summertime Hues

The Polish Canon

When in Rome

Point to Point

Hitler’s Blue Period

The Nazis stole Franz Marc’s masterpiece of German Expressionism, setting off an eight-decade search to find it

The Id of HBO

Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”

Sapphistry

Something’s wrong with the
depiction of the love affair
in Vita & Virginia

The Unpublished Verse
of Donald Trump

“I think that I shall never see,
a poem lovely as a wall … ”

Randall Poster’s Bumper-to-Bumper Blues Playlist

Lily Allen, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Traffic
(naturally), Sly & Robbie, and More

A Portrait of the Surrealists