Daphne Merkin
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
HBO’s new documentary on the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll tells an inspiring story of survival
The Anxiety of Assimilation
The powerful new play Leopoldstadt mirrors its author’s journey from Tomáš Sträussler to Tom Stoppard
Forces of Nature
The renowned photographer Karsh shot some of the 20th century’s most remarkable women
Family Fiction
The Super 8 Years brings the Nobel Prize–winning French novelist Annie Ernaux’s high literary style to the screen
A Charmed Life
Poet, human-rights activist, world traveler, wife of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist William Styron—a new memoir chronicles the many sides of Rose Styron
The Cult Around the Corner
For nearly 30 years, a fringe psychologist exerted total control over the lives of his followers. His not-so-secret headquarters? A town house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
Down the Memory Hole
An arresting new biography gives George Orwell’s intrepid first wife her due