Murder Is Her Muse
Writer Sarah Phelps is shocking Agatha Christie purists—and re-inventing the genre
Lexi Underwood
The 16-year-old Little Fires Everywhere actress isn’t like the other girls
Casey Cep
Harper Lee’s biographer recommends the most revolutionary books in the genre
Nothing to See Here
The author of a new biography on the Dalai Lama demystifies the leader’s unassuming stoicism
The Little Old Lady Who Enjoyed Murdering People
After Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the world’s most widely published author
Songs That, Well, Cook
The author of See You on Sunday spends time in the kitchen with PJ Harvey, Uncle Tupelo, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, Fela Kuti, and others
Too Close for Comfort
In HBO’s The Plot Against America, from the Philip Roth novel, the present-day parallels are profoundly disturbing
Hand’s Turn
The arabesque’s presence in art ranges from Hellenistic times to Islamic design to the decorative arts, music, and dance.
Flower Power
Drag diva, fashion model, and budding beauty impresario Violet Chachki specializes in her own brand of feminine mystique
White House of Horrors
A scandal that prefigured today’s appalling Trump escapades. Plus: chasing, and catching, Cosby
It Takes One to Know One
The author of a biography of Dave Brubeck on the jazz pianist’s little-known friendship with bebop sensation Charlie Parker
Mark Morris
When one of the most influential choreographers alive today has a minute to himself, he reads
