There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame
Helen Mirren brings something special to every performance. But for HBO’s Catherine the Great, she also draws on her own White Russian roots
MoMA Mia—a New Museum!
Following a familiar script, the Museum of Modern Art has re-invented itself yet again. But first it had to be invented
Dancing in the Air
Chic, the Temptations, Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, the Trammps, the Pointer Sisters again … and more
Once More unto the Breach
In Henry V, Timothée Chalamet tries to fill the sabbatons of Olivier and Branagh
The Last Queen of France
Marie Antoinette’s biographer on her secret plot to stop the Revolution, and what history got wrong about the monarch
“I Go Nowhere, See No One”
Greta Garbo’s letters, now up for auction, make public a rare glimpse of the star who loved solitude
They Publish the Perished
Thanks to New York Review Books Classics, masterpieces such as Stoner, Speedboat, and Poison Penmanship are back in print and finding new fans
Deborah Berke
On the books that unite literature and architecture
A Room of Their Own
A 1920s note from Vita to Virginia is an exercise in reassuring a lover
Postcard from the Alps
With fall comes winter planning: a new cookbook features photographs of Europe’s snowy peaks, and food to match
Bong Joon-ho
Parasite, the South Korean director’s new film about class warfare, triumphed at Cannes and is generating Oscar heat
Downton Abbey: The Five-Minute Version
Condensed, with perhaps one or two liberties taken. Still, the reading time is 118 minutes less than the film’s running time
Gold Diggers
Sebastião Salgado’s photographs capture the hope, despair, and human suffering in a Brazilian mine
A Modernist Marie Kondo
The architect and designer Charlotte Perriand went from Le Corbusier disciple to fearless visionary
