In Love with Love Megan Nolan’s novel, Acts of Desperation, casts a fresh light on a timeless theme
March 10, 2021
Dressing Ratso What would Midnight Cowboy be without Dustin Hoffman in his creased white suit?
Reverse Migration Eight questions with Charles M. Blow, the author and New York Times op-ed columnist whose new book is a call to action for Black Americans to move South
March 17, 2021
Bad Boy Bacon Francis Bacon’s emergence onto the London social scene—including the time he humiliated Princess Margaret—was as controversial as his paintings
March 17, 2021
The Dread Pirate Drake Sir Francis Drake’s biographer traces the 16th-century explorer’s legacy in London, at sea, and beyond
March 17, 2021
Said and Done Edward Said managed to popularize the idea of a Palestinian state in the Reagan years. His biographer reveals the charm behind the chutzpah
Artists in Action Soviet Russia meets Weimar Germany in these avant-garde posters and drawings of the early 20th century, a gift to MoMA from the Merrill C. Berman Collection
Frankenthaler and Me Searching for Helen Frankenthaler gets personal for an author whose past is intertwined with that of the great American artist
March 24, 2021
Notes from Under the Sheets Tracing the pre–Crime and Punishment love affair of Dostoevsky and Polina Suslova, a young, dazzling Russian radical
March 24, 2021
Re-writing History Antony Beevor is trading the page for the screen, joining forces with Ridley Scott for a wide-ranging series on W.W. II’s final year
March 24, 2021
Off the Wall The photographer Horst A. Friedrichs celebrates the magic of independent booksellers and the volumes on their shelves, from the Strand to Shakespeare and Company
Post-Nature Eight Questions with Nathaniel Rich, the novelist and author of Losing Earth, whose new book contemplates a return to the world we’ve ruined
Do You Believe in Magic? A new book argues that some of the most astonishing findings in social science are little more than smoke and mirrors
March 31, 2021
One Part Instinct, Two Parts Grit Sharon Stone discusses sexism in Hollywood, the plastic surgery she didn’t agree to, and a near fistfight with Basic Instinct co-star Michael Douglas
March 31, 2021
