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Lucian Freud, Lady Caroline Blackwood—and Me

My mother’s marriage to the painter was brief, and the hours she spent sitting for him were long. But the resulting portraits are forever

People Who Don’t Need People

A growing number of transhumanists and radical environmentalists believe our days as a species are numbered. And they feel fine

Family Fiction

The Super 8 Years brings the Nobel Prize–winning French novelist Annie Ernaux’s high literary style to the screen

A Decade in Dance

A Cri de Coeur for the Moment

Alice Diop discusses Saint Omer, a drama of race and motherhood that marks the filmmaker’s first fiction feature, selected as France’s entry in the upcoming Academy Awards

Frida Gustavsson

The star of Netflix’s Vikings first emerged on the scene as one of the fashion industry’s top models

Two Tickets to Paradise

George Clooney and Julia Roberts join host Bruce Bozzi to talk about their chemistry, the shirtless men at George’s wedding, and much more in our podcast Table for Two

The Accidental Collector

Judy Glickman Lauder didn’t set out to become a collector. Yet she ended up amassing some of the most important images in photography, shot by everyone from Berenice Abbott to William Klein, to Weegee

Charlie Scheips’s Sketchbook

The Re-invention of John Stonehouse

Succession star Matthew Macfadyen leads a raucous new drama about the stranger-than-fiction story of a British politician who faked his own death in 1974

Why Is Connecticut the Home of Neo-Noir Murders?

Rich Cohen takes us inside the “Fitbit murder” and reveals why this tiny patch of America feels like Blue Velvet’s back lot

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Happy Endings

When Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along first appeared, it was a disaster. Forty years on, it’s a triumph

Before Mozart Was Mozart

A Japanese director in Berlin gives the teenage whiz kid’s first operatic hit a dazzling makeover

Empire State of Mind

The Phantom of the Royal Opera

There’s a reason J.R. Moehringer, who has ghosted memoirs for Andre Agassi and Phil Knight, was paid seven figures for the Prince Harry job

How Streisand and Redford Made a Casablanca for Boomers

James Wolcott takes us inside The Way We Were on its 50th anniversary, and more …

The Funniest Show You Probably Haven’t Been Watching

Carla Frayman

The jet-setting D.J. who goes by “Carlita” uses her classical-music background to curate sets for party-goers around the world

The Big Unfriendly Giant

The Way They Were

James Olstein’s Sketchbook

Mr. Bad Guy

No one was a better thug on-screen, or off, than Lawrence Tierney

Paradise Found

Eight questions with Pico Iyer, whose new book takes readers around the world in search of paradise and its competing ideas