Hitler’s Blue Period
The Nazis stole Franz Marc’s masterpiece of German Expressionism, setting off an eight-decade search to find it
Not Your Ordinary Radioactive Meatball
Also: true and true-enough crime series to latch on to, set in L.A. and N.Y.
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
Dave Brown
The Hollywood maverick who hosts a film festival—every single week
Beauvoir Revisited
A new book offers a second take on The Second Sex
Gurinder Chadha
On the memoirs that altered her worldview
Thanks, but No Thanks
Rejection letters you might have missed
Electric Conductor
How Carlos Kleiber’s opera rehearsals influence the director of The French Connection
