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
Gurinder Chadha
On the memoirs that altered her worldview
Beauvoir Revisited
A new book offers a second take on The Second Sex
Not Your Ordinary Radioactive Meatball
Also: true and true-enough crime series to latch on to, set in L.A. and N.Y.
He Re-Shoots, He Scores
Russian filmmakers splice sports history to play along with Putin
Librarian Chic
In September, Prestel will publish a new edition of German photographer Candida Höfer’s Libraries, featuring striking images from literary spaces across the world
Brunello Cucinelli
Selects three books that ask the big questions
Will That Be All?
An exhibition re-creates the atmosphere of a Pompeiian banquet—just before the volcano erupted