Fare-Thee-Well, 2020 Close out the year with Frank Ocean, the Avalanches, Brian Eno, Waxahatchee, and more
Olivia Cooke For the actress, who at 26 has already starred in Ready Player One, Modern Love, and Vanity Fair, the pandemic offered a much-needed re-start
An Empress in Code She was known for her three-hour hairstyling sessions, but Elizabeth of Austria also provided key, secret support to her husband, the Habsburg emperor
New York Minute Ernst Haas’s bright, blurry photographs capture the vibrancy and transience of a city on the move
All About Eve with Strippers? A Q&A about T&A. How Showgirls, one of Hollywood’s raunchiest movies, came to be
Alan Cumming Remembers Sean Connery A Boxing Day treat; the prince of Scotland shares a memory of “the king of Scotland”; and more
Heart On His Sleeve Following a new Otello that streamed to thousands, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s Alexander Pereira on directing opera mid-pandemic
December 23, 2020
Christmas Scamp Martin Jarvis records Richmal Crompton’s “Just William” stories as the young hero makes a mockery of holiday merriment
December 21, 2020
Are Harry and Meghan Copying the Obamas? It certainly seems like it. Listen for yourself, and decide
Loading the Dice Before the world praised Picasso and Duchamp, a 1913 alphabet book skewered the Cubists and futurists in a series of hilarious illustrations
Back in the U.S.S.R. A new book peels back the Iron Curtain with nostalgic photographs of life in the Soviet Union
Yuval Noah Harari The author of Sapiens recommends three books for developing our sense of perspective
