Randall Poster’s Bumper-to-Bumper Blues Playlist
Lily Allen, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Traffic
(naturally), Sly & Robbie, and More
Hitler’s Blue Period
The Nazis stole Franz Marc’s masterpiece of German Expressionism, setting off an eight-decade search to find it
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The Unpublished Verse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 … ”
The Id of HBO
Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”
Dave Brown
The Hollywood maverick who hosts a film festival—every single week
Randall Poster’s Deep-Summer Playlist:
Ella Fitzgerald, Vampire Weekend, the Meters, and More …
Notes on Sontag
The late American writer loved to keep lists. Her biographer traces the backward arc from her viral “Camp” essay to the notes that preceded it
Beauvoir Revisited
A new book offers a second take on The Second Sex
Gurinder Chadha
On the memoirs that altered her worldview
Not Your Ordinary Radioactive Meatball
Also: true and true-enough crime series to latch on to, set in L.A. and N.Y.
