Television Review
A new series on Paramount+ dramatizes the shaky road Mario Puzo’s and Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ took from page to screen.5 min read
Bookshelf
For much of its history, American society was awash in the biblical ideas, themes, names and gimcrackery—for good and ill.5 min read
Art Review
An exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art looks at the artist’s existential strivings through his figurative forms. 4 min read
Television Review
Ben Foster stars as Harry Haft in Barry Levinson’s biopic about the boxer who fought in Nazi concentration camps and after the war in America. 5 min read
Bookshelf
In the mid-1960s, airlines promised male passengers a flight made alluring by young female company. Turbulence was just ahead.5 min read
Music Review
The latest album from the chillwave pioneer highlights the artist’s compositional strengths, jumping among eras and genres with ease. 4 min read
Bookshelf
How game theory explains conspicuous consumption, royal coronations, rap lyrics, trench warfare—and more.5 min read
Inside the House of Windsor, culture and conflict on the Black Sea, Don Winslow’s new mob saga and more. Plus: Shakespeare for kids.2 min read
If the Windsors have weathered a cavalcade of misfortunes and scandals, credit their determined family manager: the Queen.6 min read
Britons of the 19th century conquered the globe with a commercial and military empire. Along the way, they also transformed themselves.6 min read