All Hail the Queen Tina Turner is still rocking and rolling at 81
Father of the Blues August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom soars in a new film adaptation with Viola Davis, bringing the playwright’s voice to a whole new generation
Good Pluck The Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital is gaining world recognition for his delightful mastering of the string instrument
December 18, 2020
Short List What to read this week, from Roger Rosenblatt’s new essays to books on Venice and the origins of humankind
December 16, 2020
Doctors’ Orders The story of two pioneering women doctors and the London hospital they founded amid the turmoil of World War I
December 16, 2020
French Leave Nearly ten years ago Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of rape but managed to avoid jail. A new documentary recounts the incident and its aftermath
December 15, 2020
Night and Day The centenarian Eddie Jaku, who survived Kristallnacht and Auschwitz, considers himself “the happiest man on Earth”
Candice Bergen Is No Dummy What it’s like to work with Meryl Streep. And the man who turned her “to goo”
Trump in Exile Where on earth can a defeated, disgraced president go when his White House stint is finished?
Zeina Durra With Luxor, the British filmmaker brings romance to the ruins of the Egyptian Pharaohs
Away with Words Everybody’s talking, but what’s the point when we have these songs from Charles Mingus, Art Farmer, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, and more
The Female Gaze Alongside a show at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery, a book re-evaluates the history of photography through the lens of the New Woman
Home for the Holidays Art, ballet, operas, carols: a cultural guide to a holiday season spent socially distanced and (mostly) at home
He Keeps 007 in Gear Good news: Ben Whishaw returns as Q in the new James Bond. Not good news: the film is still delayed
Hollywood Ending History forgot Arthur Calder-Marshall, the popular writer whose novel was picked up by Orson Welles. Now his grandson plays Welles in David Fincher’s Mank
December 9, 2020
