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Bad Apples

Laura Wade

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

The Gold Standard

Is 1962 secretly the greatest year ever for movies?

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

In-Between Songs

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

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Difficult

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

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

Murder, They Wrote

TikTok Meets Its (Classier) Match

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

Quote of the Week

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

Pool Party!

A new book captures the enduring allure of swimming pools

Dog Days

The Pumping Station

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

Found in Translation

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

What a Wonderful World (Wide Web)

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

Triumph of the Willing

On the 75th anniversary of Hitler’s defeat, what can William Shirer’s epic history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, teach us about today?