Renaissance Women
A new book spotlights four forgotten female writers who were contemporaries of Shakespeare’s but cut out of history
A Publisher of One’s Own
For 25 years, Persephone Books has been turning the works of forgotten female writers into unexpected best-sellers
What the Hell Is Gwyneth Cooking Up Now?
On this week’s podcast, Jensen Davis taste-tests Goop Kitchen
New Kid on the Great White Way
The longtime Public Theater producer Mandy Hackett sets her sights on Broadway with the Alicia Keys–inspired musical, Hell’s Kitchen
Flappers to the Wings!
The Great Gatsby made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s name, but the Broadway play of his book made him rich. A copy of the long-lost script has finally been found
Katana and Crumpets
The new hit TV mini-series Shōgun has re-ignited interest in the rollicking life of the Englishman William Adams, Japan’s first foreign samurai
From the Metropol Hotel to Hollywood
In an interview, Amor Towles discusses adapting A Gentleman in Moscow for the screen and the inspiration behind his newest book, Table for Two
Against the Grain
The Museum of Modern Art exhibits New York’s first-ever retrospective on Käthe Kollwitz, one of history’s greatest graphic artists—and one of its most outspoken pacifists
Around the World with Steve McCurry
Refugee camps in Pakistan, civil wars in Cambodia, religious ceremonies in India … A new book collects more than 100 images by the American photojournalist
Godsmacked
Weeding out the Garden of Eden
The Sky’s the Limit
From the title role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Omar, the tenor Jamez McCorkle pivots to godhood
Finding Gaudí
How the playful details of Antoni Gaudí’s architecture turned one critic into an admirer
All That Is Solid Melts into Theory
How did a once obscure academic notion called “gender identity” triumph over material reality? Credit—or blame—Judith Butler
Who’s Killing the Great Languages of Europe?
On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino reports on why—from Italy to Germany to France—English is now on everyone’s tongue
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
In A Gentleman in Moscow, the actress beguiles the hero, played by her real-life husband, Ewan McGregor
Brancusi’s Magnum Opus
Bronze, wood, marble, stone … the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, presents the sculptor’s largest retrospective since 1995
Lunch with Matt Bomer
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, Hollywood’s “most handsome man” discusses getting his start in a Chuck Norris movie, auditioning for The All New Mickey Mouse Club, and much more …
