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Tide Turner

So Much More than a Shoe

Alexandra Fuller

The African-born writer recommends books that depict the complex brutality of colonialism

The Leaning Towers of Deutsche

The author of a new book exposes the widespread, historic corruption fueling the German bank’s downfall

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Churchill

The Picture of Greed

Michael Winterbottom’s new film is an unsparing portrait of a ruthless fast-fashion billionaire

Famous Last Words

Death doesn’t stop narrators in songs from expressing themselves, as tracks from Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, the Rolling Stones, the Shangri-Las, and others prove

Enemies’ Enemies

Bahia Bash

To the Extreme

Josh O’Connor

Between seasons of The Crown, on which he plays Charles, the actor stars in Emma, in theaters now

Short List

Jenny Kroik’s Sketchbook

La Dolce Vitae

Federico Fellini began recording his dreams around the time he was working on La Dolce Vita. On the centenary of his birth, diary sketches illustrate the filmmaker at his most personal

Cloudy with a Chance of Doom

Murder, They Wrote

Pozzi Scheme

Flipping the Hitchcock Script

The author of a new book on Joan Harrison re-writes the filmmaker’s prolific history to highlight the woman driving his success

Opera à la CNN

Valentine’s Day After

So, how’d it go? Really? Well, maybe Nick Cave, Marianne Faithfull, Bryan Ferry, Millie Jackson, Todd Rundgren, and the National can help

Lost Worlds Retrieved

Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard’s new (and perhaps last) play, is an act of historical excavation and personal reparation

Play It Again, Alex

Air Mail, MatchesFashion, and Lehmann Maupin kick off Frieze Los Angeles with supper and a screening of the latest short film by Alex Prager

License to Burn

Melania Diaries,
Part III