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Sleeping Beauty, Re-awakened

The Vienna State Ballet’s new production of the fairy tale adds substance to the gossamer world

Getting It Right

For the British playwright Alan Bennett, other people’s lives are just the dress rehearsal

The Home Front

After fighting overseas in World War II, Black soldiers came home to racism and violence in America

Stroke of Luck

From the Front Lines

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new documentary gives an unflinching look at the brutality of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Grace Gummer

The actress, a member of a great acting family, is pivoting from theater to television

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point

Early on, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA was just lonely. His path to the radical right reflects a larger trend among America’s youth

Newman’s Own

How TikTok Turned a Disease Into a Hot Brand

Inside the AIR MAIL story on Gen Z’s latest ailment. Plus, more on the new Trump tell-all books

The Book of Life

The stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel A Little Life heads to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for its New York premiere

Older and Wiser

Angelica Hicks’s Sketchbook

Ice Ice Baby

A salacious new memoir by John le Carré’s longtime mistress leaves his once thrilling spy stories looking rather dull

The Nuns’ Story

Live from San Francisco, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Poulenc’s gripping chronicle of the French Revolution

French Dispatch

Inside the life and work of Annie Ernaux, the French writer who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature

Warning Signs

After Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to escape Auschwitz, he detailed the horrors of the concentration camp in a chilling report. Why did the world ignore it?

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a coffee-table book devoted to big animals; a corrective to a Fox News conspiracy theory about WikiLeaks; and a chronicle of Vienna’s culture

A Guide to Frieze London and Frieze Masters

If there’s one person who knows the fairs backwards and forwards, it’s Andrés Perez. Here, he suggests what to see and do this week

Erling Haaland

The Premier League’s latest superstar is so talented he might spoil the sport for good

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Down and Out in Architecture

Misery Porn

Blonde is sexist, cruel, and degrading—so why is it currently the No. 1 film on Netflix?

Geena Davis Didn’t Know Thelma & Louise Is Still a Thing

The movie star reflects on the film’s enduring popularity, and how Hollywood has changed in the years since it was made