A Better Billionaire
On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg
Malcolm Mackay
On the crime fiction that never gets old
Year of the Moon
Museums and stages across the world celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing
Tangier Style
A new book, out in September, features photographs of the Moroccan coastal city’s picturesque homes and gardens
Queen of Muses
The always extraordinary Patricia Clarkson on Sharp Objects, portraying difficult characters, and the correct way to make jambalaya
Laura Carlin
The London artist whose illustrations and ceramics appeal to children and grown-ups alike
The Story of L
A noted French author reimagines Nabokov’s novel from Lolita’s point of view
Late-Night
Beck, Ray Charles, the Beastie Boys, Vans Morrison and McCoy, and more
A Monster Among Angels
The Night of the Iguana, now in an eloquent production in London, is Tennessee Williams’s last great work
Olivia Laing
On the books that cure her writer’s block
The Id of HBO
Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”
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