Confessions of a Literalist
I don’t do simile. Metaphor is out of the question
Drumming Up Sympathy
A new biography of rock legend Jim Gordon reveals how the music scene ignored his mental health struggles, then abandoned him when he snapped
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
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 Wellness Madness
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is sick of wellness. What he wants is more badness, malice, and depravity
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
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
Feeding Frenzy
Post-Putin, Tucker Carlson interviews Jaws, the shark
Lucas Zelnick
After a brief stint as a corporate strategist, the young comedian started a stand-up club in Manhattan
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
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
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
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
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
