Ash Carter
What Woody Allen Told Me
On this week’s podcast, Sam Wasson takes us inside his conversation with the writer-director
Edward Jay Epstein
The investigative journalist made a career of questioning accepted narratives, from the Kennedy assassination to the Black Panthers to the diamond industry
Larry Fink
The great photographer, who died last week, left behind a treasure trove of penetrating, perturbing images
Lessons in Controversy
During his years as publisher of The New Republic, Martin Peretz held sway over Washington. In a memoir, he attempts to make sense of the fall from grace that followed
Highway to Nowhere
In an interview, the writers David Samuels and Walter Kirn discuss County Highway, a new, print-only broadsheet that bills itself as “a magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper”
The Accidental Journalist
Over a long and unconventional career, Edward Jay Epstein learned to assume nothing—landing scoops on everything from the Kennedy assassination to Watergate along the way
Can a 71-year-old American Musical Revive London?
On this week’s podcast, John Lahr tells us how—and why—Londoners have gone mad for Guys and Dolls
Will the Idaho-Killings Suspect Walk Free?
Howard Blum takes us inside the investigation, and why a conviction of Bryan Kohberger is not a slam dunk
A Master Trickster, Re-Discovered
Remy Charlip created fanciful books for children—as well as everything from theater design to choreography (including the “Air Mail Dances”!)
Being There
There’s no substitute for seeing a concert in person, but these tracks will tide you over until that’s a possibility again
Taking—and Making—Liberties
Three years after #MeToo allegations sank his Laurene Powell Jobs–funded magazine, Leon Wieseltier wants back in
Reappearing Inque
An interview with the founder of a Kickstarter-funded literary magazine that’s defying the rules of digital media
Sounding the Alarm
Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on cancel culture and the future of free speech
Martini, Anyone?
Christine Baranski on The Good Fight, her bathrobe-clad Sondheim tribute, and spending lockdown in a house full of children
The Covidfefe Chronicles
You can’t spell “pandemic” without “me,” backward
Cinema Paradiso
In her debut movie, Gianni Agnelli’s granddaughter tells the story of an eccentric family in early 1990s Italy
Act Two
In 1963, Mike Nichols was a 31-year-old former comedian with no immediate prospects. Then he met Neil Simon. A new book recounts what happened next, in the words of the key players
They Publish the Perished
Thanks to New York Review Books Classics, masterpieces such as Stoner, Speedboat, and Poison Penmanship are back in print and finding new fans
Nazis in the Basement
France
Succession, starring Ghislaine Maxwell
Her family makes the Roys of HBO look like the Brady Bunch