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The (Oval) Office

Woman of the West

Victoria’s Angel

Prints for the People

Murder, They Wrote

Skrebneski’s Lens

Still Processing

Not Your Ordinary Radioactive Meatball

Also: true and true-enough crime series to latch on to, set in L.A. and N.Y.

Gurinder Chadha

On the memoirs that altered her worldview

Beauvoir Revisited

A new book offers a second take on The Second Sex

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Indian Summer Time

Dichterliebe in Play

Red, Black, and Blue

The Unpublished Verse
of Donald Trump

“I think that I shall never see,
a poem lovely as a wall … ”

A Portrait of the Surrealists

The Polish Canon

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 Bumper-to-Bumper Blues Playlist

Lily Allen, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Traffic
(naturally), Sly & Robbie, and More

Point to Point

In the Money

When in Rome