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Tanu Vasu’s Sketchbook

Get Out of Your Head!

Novelist Laura Zigman is using lessons learned from her own struggles in publishing to provide talk therapy to other writers

A Feminist Frankenstein

Director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara discuss their new film, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a child-woman like no other

Guess What Melania Trump Is Up To

Bet-makers weigh in on how the elusive former First Lady has been whiling away the hours since leaving the White House

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

Valhalla Karaoke

Das Rheingold according to Romeo Castellucci

Yesterday Once More

Forty years after Karen Carpenter’s death, a biography of the 1970s superstar explores the singer’s grit and tenacity

Story Time

When Life Gives You Lemons …

Produced by Pauline Chalamet and directed by Rachel Walden, the short film Lemon Tree is inspired by a true story from Walden’s grandfather’s childhood

Doomsday Goals

A pessimist prepares for a job interview

Where Christianity and Nationalism Collide

The Dramatist as Analyst

Moment of Truth

Do historical films and TV programs need to be accurate?

Striking It Rich

Sports agent to the stars Rich Paul attributes his success—his friendship with LeBron James, his relationship with Adele—to luck. Turns out it’s anything but

Absolutely Normal Chaos

Is Ridley Scott the bluntest man in the movie business? On the press tour for Napoleon, the director swears, shouts, and says whatever comes to mind

If These Walls Could Talk …

On this week’s podcast, Christopher Mason explains why a confidante to New York’s elite hid her true identity

In Lichtenstein’s Shadow

In honor of the Pop artist’s 100th birthday, the Parrish Art Museum is restoring a pair of his kinetic sculptures

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Sketchbook

Paul Henkel

Raised in the art world, the young curator is spotlighting new talent at his Manhattan art gallery

The Kingmaker

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis sealed Colonel Tom Parker’s reputation as greedy and conniving. In truth, Presley’s manager was the opposite—someone who would do anything for his client and friend

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Sight Unseen

Alice Mason was a celebrated hostess and New York’s real-estate agent to the elite, but while she was showing lavish apartments to clients like Marilyn Monroe, she was hiding a family secret

Silent Night, Holy Night

The John Adams Nativity oratorio El Niño, distilled