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A Rebel with a Cause

In the midst of protests in Iran, a London show by the artist Soheila Sokhanvari spotlights the country’s early feminist icons

An Afternoon with Thomas Mallon

The author and editor of Gore Vidal discusses the influence of Mary McCarthy, his latest book, and the upcoming TV adaptation of his 2007 novel, Fellow Travelers

The Torch Relit

Lise Davidsen’s 2019 Bayreuth debut in Tannhäuser gave Wagnerians something to cheer about

Harry’s Own King’s Speech

Read by Prince Harry, the audiobook version of Spare includes Ali G impressions and off-key renditions of Elton John

Fine Tuning

In an interview, the music producer Rick Rubin describes the thrill of his first No. 1 album and working with everyone from Jay-Z to Adele

Bach Re-Boxed

Alisa Weilerstein, cellist in excelsis, premieres an immense new collage that incorporates, in their entirety, the master’s six suites for her instrument

Murder, They Wrote

This month, mystery books ranging from the combustible to the slow burn offer something for every type

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Fifty Shades of Gropius

His great-uncle designed Berlin’s Gropius Bau, and he studied alongside Mies van der Rohe. Then he started Bauhaus. An illustrated biography tells the many-layered story of Walter Gropius

The Postmodernist and the Drowning Man

For Janet Malcolm, there was no ultimate truth—only endless interpretation. Except when her own credibility was on the line

When a Doctor Becomes a Patient

Lukas Dhont

In an interview, the young director discusses his film Close, Belgium’s submission to the Academy Awards, which has earned comparisons to François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

The World According to Hockney

At 85, the acclaimed English artist is on trend, launching an immersive exhibition in London that uses virtual reality to show new, rarely seen, and much-lauded works

Beyond the Grave

Ahead of his new solo show, the artist Scott Covert discusses his artistic breakthrough and sneaking into cemeteries to create his paintings

Re-Inventing Anna?

House arrest be damned! Notorious fraudster Anna Delvey joins the podcast to share her side of her incredible story

What a Piece of Work

Sure, I can write you a tell-all full of objective facts

A “Russian Proust”?

Gina Lollobrigida

From “Mini-Documentaries” to Major Ones

Success, for Daniel Roher, is bittersweet. While he’s winning praise and awards for Navalny, the subject of his inspiring documentary is in a Siberian gulag

Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object

From Glyndebourne, Mozart’s Orientalist fantasy The Abduction from the Seraglio

The Plot Thickens

Notes from Underground

James Fox, ghostwriter to Keith Richards and David Bailey, reveals the tricks of his trade—and why J. R. Moehringer shouldn’t be blamed for Harry’s memoir

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