& Juliet and Titanique: two newly minted cult classics
Let me tell you a secret: the theater world still adores Shakespeare, even in 2023
Books & Arts
Mary Blair, doyenne of Disneyland
To preserve an outsider artist such as her, you have to preserve the messy reality of life
Greg Lansky: the artist with a scandalous past
As an adult film magnate, he profited off the broken aspects of our society for years
The magnetism of His Dark Materials
Pullman’s color palette is of vibrant grays. He rejects absolute goods and evils
The enigmatic rise of Colleen Hoover
Meet the world’s bestselling author, a self-made forty-three-year-old mom you probably haven’t heard of
Tom Crewe’s The New Life is sophisticated, intelligent and gripping
This book doesn’t pretend that its subjects are twenty-first century people in different clothes
Vince McMahon: the modern-day P.T. Barnum who changed America
The new biography Ringmaster unpacks a controversial legend
Why does a new Tolkien biography remain elusive?
His books and television adaptations keep coming, but we know little of J.R.R. Tolkien’s life
The difficulties of writing historical fiction
Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’
