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Ian Wright; photo by David Harrison; courtesy of ... The Haunting Last Letters of Sylvia Plath
As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers.
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Hulton Deutsch / Corbis Historical / Getty The Misremembering of Robert Graves
Good-bye to All That is arguably the war veteran and literary stalwart’s best work, but a new biography ignores its impact.
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Apple Corps Ltd. What the Beatles Sounded Like Unedited
Fifty years after its debut, The White Album has been reissued to include demos and sessions, giving listeners a wider lens through which to examine the seminal work from the band.
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Rune Fisker Jack Reacher Still Won’t Quit, 23 Books Later
The literary hero’s coffee-chugging, cigarette-devouring creator, Lee Child, just released his latest novel. He shows no signs of slowing down.
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Chris Carroll / Getty R.E.M., in Retrospect
With R.E.M. at the BBC, the band culls together 104 songs for a vast and slightly dizzying retrospective.
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Michael Putland / Getty The Bizarre Beat of Yoko Ono’s Drum
In her new album, Warzone, the artist updates songs from her catalog, but misses the mark more often than not.
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Cathal Duane Paul McCartney Can’t Stop Making People Happy
Now 76, with a new album, the pop legend continues to delight and comfort the world with his music.
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Mara Vivat / Getty How To Write About Royalty
In 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, the author Craig Brown captures Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister perfectly.
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Katie Martin; Adult Swim The Cartoon That Captures the Damaged American Male
Rick and Morty is a dialectic of masculinity unmoored.
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Erica Parise / SHOWTIME Jim Carrey Masters His Act in Kidding
In a new Showtime series, the actor delivers the same gripping performance that’s been characteristic of his career: moving, thoughtful, and maniacal.
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Kristian Buus / Getty Viv Albertine’s Got Something to Say
For her second memoir, the irreverent punk icon mixes a bit of vulnerability with a lot of grit.
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Rob Baker Ashton The Unlikely Harmony Between Iggy Pop and Underworld
Two musical giants collide in Teatime Dub Encounters to produce a fascinating dialogue between old-school rock and New Age electronic.
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Ryan Olbrysh The Wisdom of Russell Brand
The comedian-actor’s interview podcast, Under the Skin, is a fascinating listen that channels its host’s energy and interests in surprisingly productive ways
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Jesse Lenz Live-Streaming the Apocalypse With NRATV
The online-streaming service of the National Rifle Association is part lifestyle channel, part gun-lobby orifice—and it wants to make you buy firearms.
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Audun Rikardsen / BBC The Beauty and Horror of Blue Planet II
David Attenborough’s latest documentary gorgeously reveals the world’s oceans—and shows how badly humans are screwing them up.
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Jason Raish A Mind-Bending Translation of the New Testament
David Bentley Hart’s text recaptures the awkward, multivoiced power of the original.
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Dushan Milic How Michael Clayton Presaged 2017
Ten years after the film’s release, the world has caught up to its bleak vision.
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Mark J. Rebilas / Reuters When McGregor Faced Mayweather
In the end, the much hyped fight played out as it was destined to.
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André Carrilho The Whitest Music Ever
Prog rock was audacious, innovative—and awful.
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Sam Taylor What Inspired the Summer of Love?
Mostly drugs.
