Review Bombers
The influential, Amazon-owned Web site Goodreads has been infiltrated by scammers and trolls extorting authors and destroying careers—largely targeting Black and L.G.B.T.Q.+ writers. So what now?
Faces for Radio
In the Know, Peacock’s stop-motion send-up of the public-radio set, is modeled on the NPR boobs you know and love
The Mahabharata of Literary Festivals
Forget glitchy microphones and cheap white wine. The Jaipur Literature Festival is the biggest and best of its kind in the world
Live from Laurel Canyon
A new book of photographs by Henry Diltz chronicles the story of the band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, America’s own Beatles
Vivaldi In His Element
Il Giustino lands at Stockholm’s Drottningholm Court Theater
Outside the Map
How George Kennan’s excellent prose opened doors for all types of writing, from war reporting to investigative work in Russia
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
A Very, Very British Scandal
On this week’s podcast: inside the worst miscarriage of justice in the history of the U.K.
Back from the Dead
The celebrated Nadia Boulanger’s La Ville Morte surfaces in Athens, then in New York
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
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?
Win by a Nose?
Maestro actor and director Bradley Cooper’s hungry Oscar campaign isn’t earning him any fans
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
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
Jodie Foster’s Coming of Age
The actress looks back at the time a shooter attempted to assassinate President Reagan on her behalf—and discusses the unexpected perks of being an older woman in Hollywood
