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
Bella Figura
For Italian actress Miriam Leone, it all started with a little black dress
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?
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
I Used to Be Charming
A never-before-published essay on the burns that almost cost the L.A. icon her life
Ann Patchett
Recommends three of this year’s best books
Murder, They Wrote
Three new mysteries
Hail Fellowes, Well Met
The creator of Downton Abbey has lunch with an old flame
Show Tunes
The O’Jays, Bette Midler, James Brown, Bobby Darin, and more
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?
