Mad About the Girl
Judy Garland, Jeff Buckley, Noël Coward, and more
Cultural Evolution
A young audience, an impressive schedule, and a woman president: the 140-year-old Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is very much of the moment
Drop That Corn Dog
No platform is better suited for letting candidates bypass the hokey rituals of retail campaigning than the humble, motley podcast
Eternity’s Gate
The love letter that made it out of Auschwitz intact
Larger Than Life
This month, a number of exhibitions pay tribute to those artists that died too young
The Man of Mode
Tim Walker, one of fashion’s most talented eccentrics, reflects on his smashing new show at the V&A
Murder, They Wrote
Three new mysteries
Ann Patchett
Recommends three of this year’s best books
September Songs
Fontella Bass, King Curtis … Willie Bobo! And much more
Lovable Geniuses, Preening Taskmasters?
Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, and the complicated truth about band—and Band—dynamics
Myth Buster
Maaza Mengiste writes the alternate history of Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia
Those Wonderful Acts that didn’t make it on to the Sullivan Show
(It’s why the Golden Age of television stayed Golden!)
Spoiler Alert
Did the creator of The Crown tell the one who wears it what happens next on the series?
