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Civilian evacuees board a US Marine helicopter inside US Embassy in Saigon on April 30th 1975

An Elegy for the Foreign Correspondent

Elisa Tamarkin retraces her father’s work in Vietnam, and untangles the relationship of American newspaper business to the American war machine.

The Pitt cast

Watching The Pitt at the End of an Era for HBO

An overstretched emergency department and TV network have a surprising amount in common.

Sarah Menkedick

Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and the Art of Self-Reinvention

Martha Gellhorn aboard the SS Rex in 1940

Sarah Menkedick

Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and the Art of Self-Reinvention

Books & the Arts

A black and white photograph titled Self‑Portrait Lying Down by Peter Hujar

Jeremy Lybarger

When Peter Hujar Met Paul Thek

A new joint biography traces the lives and work of the two artists, who became lovers in the 1960s.

An episodic image of Michaela Coel as Lori Butler and Ian McKellen as Julian Sklar in the film The Christophers.

The Christophers Puts an Unrepentant Art Monster Through His Paces

Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel act out intergenerational warfare in Stephen Soderbergh’s art world drama.