Really playing a character is about a lot more than whether you have to take your shirt off. Sometimes you do, sometimes you ...

August 6, 2025 – "Greene's work keeps one’s mind on tiptoe. Illusions beget disillusions but also hopes; hopes beget illusions but also clarities." ...

From The Old Man by the Sea by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions), translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky: ...

The story refers to the twins’ father’s participation in “the Slaughter, when all animal life was being extinguished by guns ...

Daniel Horowitz Brooklyn-based illustrator. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and BusinessWeek.

Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of The Crucible. In this interview, Arthur Miller discusses the writing of the play, and the McCarthy hearings that inspired it.

Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her breakthrough international success came with The Lover ...

October 16, 2023 – On finding a version of heaven—or, perhaps, life—in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, William Burroughs, Richard Wagner, Sid Vicious, V. S. Naipaul, John Galliano, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Caravaggio, Floyd Mayweather, though if we start ...

Dorothy Sayers’s Strong Poison opens with a description of a man’s last meal before death. The deceased, Philip Boyes, was a writer with “advanced” ideas, dining at the home of his wealthy ...

June 8, 2015 – A brief history of ultramarine.Michelangelo couldn’t afford ultramarine. His painting The Entombment, the story goes, was left unfinished as the result of ...

September 1, 2016 – On Pre-Raphaelite muse Jane Morris.“Defining British Art,” part of this summer’s 250th anniversary sale at London auctioneer Christie’s, included two lots ...