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Election-Year Anxiety?

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

Feeding Frenzy

Post-Putin, Tucker Carlson interviews Jaws, the shark

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

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Chronicle of an Invasion Foretold

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

The Wellness Madness

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

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

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

Carving Beauty

A retrospective at the Huntington Art Museum celebrates the artist Sargent Claude Johnson, a key figure of the Black Renaissance

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

Mob-Wife Style

Sofía Vergara becomes Miami’s biggest drug lord in the new Netflix series Griselda, and leaves audiences with one burning question: Who is writing this nonsense?

A Cinematic Séance

Peter Bogdanovich interviewed all the greats, from Hitchcock to Tarantino. Now you can hear the top filmmakers of the 21st century commune with the giants of Old Hollywood

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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