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
Those Wonderful Acts that didn’t make it on to the Sullivan Show
(It’s why the Golden Age of television stayed Golden!)
Myth Buster
Maaza Mengiste writes the alternate history of Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia
Spoiler Alert
Did the creator of The Crown tell the one who wears it what happens next on the series?
Mein Furor: Germans Not Laughing at ScarJo’s Hitler Comedy
“About as funny as Schindler’s List”
The Trump Mentor
A new documentary takes on the controversial attorney Roy Cohn
Bella Figura
For Italian actress Miriam Leone, it all started with a little black dress
I Used to Be Charming
A never-before-published essay on the burns that almost cost the L.A. icon her life
Searching for Faces
Artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn brings his newest series of unforgettable portraits to the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills
Show Tunes
The O’Jays, Bette Midler, James Brown, Bobby Darin, and more
Mamma Tua!
Abba morphs from musical to interactive dinner theater
Wright, Wronged
Frank Lloyd Wright’s biographer seeks to understand the architect through the gruesome crime he wasn’t home for
Hail Fellowes, Well Met
The creator of Downton Abbey has lunch with an old flame
Louche Cannon
With Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has caught lightning in a bottle. When someone hits with such a seismic wallop, it’s both a miracle and a mystery. Why now? Why her?
