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Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

The Wellness Madness

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is sick of wellness. What he wants is more badness, malice, and depravity

Chronicle of an Invasion Foretold

Wham, Bam, Thank You Yam

Romantasy Addicts

It’s unadulterated escapism. It’s junk food for the mind. Suddenly, sales of fiction classed as both fantasy and romance are booming

Do It Like the French Do!

Fresh from playing Coco Chanel in The New Look, Juliet Binoche takes on the role of the live-in cook of a celebrated gourmand in The Taste of Things

Talking to the Hand

Fifteen years after Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth’s new play is a rich and masterful portrait of a divided family of women

The Amazing Race

Bobi Wine’s journey from pop star to presidential candidate dominated headlines in Uganda. Now, thanks to an Oscar-nominated documentary, the conversation continues around the world

Why Do Today’s Leading Men Dress Like Rent Boys?

On this week’s podcast, George Hahn has a few choice words for the death of Hollywood style

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Around the World and Back Again

From tenement life to royal weddings to war’s front lines, Bert Hardy captured it all. A new exhibition in London collects the British photojournalist’s best work

Hollywood Lights

A new exhibition in Washington, D.C., displays photographs by George Hurrell, who captured everyone from Marlene Dietrich to Greta Garbo to Clark Gable

Lucas Zelnick

After a brief stint as a corporate strategist, the young comedian started a stand-up club in Manhattan

Election-Year Anxiety?

A veteran advice columnist fields questions—and comments—from a few concerned citizens

A Long Day’s Journey into Night

The Italian filmmaker behind Gomorrah and Pinocchio adapts immigrants’ real-life horror stories for the screen in his Oscar-nominated new film

Marta Has Left the Building

In Death Valley Junction, a theater like no other

Guiding Spirit

To write about Carson McCullers, the great American novelist, a biographer briefly lived in her childhood home

A Whole New Ball Game

How a father and son created ESPN, sports programming’s North Star, on a wing, a prayer, and a chunk of Getty cash—and walked out with almost nothing

Party of Five

The Last Dinner Party, a new rock band out of London, is shaking up the city’s music and style scenes

Spy Games

A Classic Is Born

Weathering the Storm

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave

Romancing the Twitter Bro

The untold story of the lengths to which Twitter founder Jack Dorsey went to sway his company’s acquisition in Elon Musk’s favor

The Story of the Swan Capote Spared

On this week’s podcast, Joseph Rodota reveals the limits of the writer’s duplicity