Jared Harris
Shares the standouts on his bookshelf
The Id of HBO
Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”
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
Randall Poster’s Deep-Summer Playlist:
Ella Fitzgerald, Vampire Weekend, the Meters, and More …
Dave Brown
The Hollywood maverick who hosts a film festival—every single week
Not Your Ordinary Radioactive Meatball
Also: true and true-enough crime series to latch on to, set in L.A. and N.Y.
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
Gurinder Chadha
On the memoirs that altered her worldview
