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
The Unpublished Verse
of Donald Trump
“I think that I shall never see,
a poem lovely as a wall … ”
Randall Poster’s Bumper-to-Bumper Blues Playlist
Lily Allen, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Traffic
(naturally), Sly & Robbie, and More
The Id of HBO
Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”
Jared Harris
Shares the standouts on his bookshelf
Gurinder Chadha
On the memoirs that altered her worldview
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
Not Your Ordinary Radioactive Meatball
Also: true and true-enough crime series to latch on to, set in L.A. and N.Y.
