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Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

Dominique Morisseau

The Tony-nominated playwright on how her father, a Haitian revolutionary, inspired her familial drama Sunset Baby

Vivaldi In His Element

Il Giustino lands at Stockholm’s Drottningholm Court Theater

Churchill’s Circle

Outside the Map

How George Kennan’s excellent prose opened doors for all types of writing, from war reporting to investigative work in Russia

A Very, Very British Scandal

On this week’s podcast: inside the worst miscarriage of justice in the history of the U.K.

Beyond the Friends Zone

In the 90s, Jennifer Aniston achieved the unimaginable: becoming TV’s top star and ensuring equal pay with her male colleagues. Then she became the poster child for childless women

Back from the Dead

The celebrated Nadia Boulanger’s La Ville Morte surfaces in Athens, then in New York

Truth and Consequences

The British crime drama Top Boy is among the most discussed shows on Netflix. Why is no one talking about its creator, Ronan Bennett?

The Question of Violence

Hamas’s October 7 attack has made a new biography of Frantz Fanon, the formidable and incendiary theorist of decolonization, all too timely

Kai Alexander

The English actor endured boot camp to play a World War II air-force pilot in Masters of the Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s new series

Pip Carter’s Sketchbook

America According to Ernest Cole

A new collection of recently uncovered photographs by the groundbreaking South African artist depicts Black American communities in the 1960s and 1970s

Win by a Nose?

Maestro actor and director Bradley Cooper’s hungry Oscar campaign isn’t earning him any fans

The Secret Life of the Bee Gees

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Mother of Invention

A new biography of Margaret Cavendish reveals how the 17th-century writer and philosopher treated her groundbreaking work like her child

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mystery books range from murder in Edith Wharton’s New York to the notorious 2003 Alperton Angels cult case

Chez Karl

A look inside the many homes of Karl Lagerfeld, from Paris to Rome, Biarritz to Lake Champlain

What Is Angelina Jolie Hiding?

On this week’s podcast, Dana Brown reveals how to sneak into her tightly guarded NoHo outpost

California Cool

A retrospective at the Palm Springs Art Museum honors the legacy of the midcentury architect Albert Frey

Glamour Is Forever

Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

DeSantis’s Demise