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Hues that girl?: The art, photography, books that Marilyn Monroe inspired

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 08:56 IST

The 1967 Marilyn Monroe screenprint by Andy Warhol. (Christie’s)

The Marilyn we never knew: Looking back on Monroe in her centenary year

Posing for a portrait in Palm Springs, California, in 1954. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 12:38 IST

On a slide quest: Meet a music legend who drove a school bus to make ends meet

McIlwaine (1945-2021) performs in Chicago in 1980. Leave the slide guitar to the men, she was told. Instead, she played with a ferocity that was, at least for a while, impossible to ignore. She died five years ago this June. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 12:05 IST

Uprising: An exclusive excerpt from the new novel by Bangladesh’s Tahmima Anam

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 11:24 IST

Revolt aboard a floating brothel?: Tahmima Anam discusses her new book

(Photo by Probir Das)

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 11:19 IST

Zoom out, tune in: Charles Assisi on embracing abstractation

Life rarely unfolds with photographic clarity. The trick, therefore, isn’t gathering more clues but spotting patterns in the incomplete. (Above) At first glance, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisation 31 (1913) seems obscure. Look closer, and a battle at sea emerges. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:07 IST

A crave new world: How food apps have gamed our brains

Food apps have built on the addictive nature of slot machines.

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:08 IST

Private but no equity: A new book traces the history of privacy

(Adobe Stock; Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:03 IST

Continuity error: Welcome to the age of the anti-romcom

(From left) The Drama, Beef Season 2 and Obsession look suspiciously like romcoms but feel nothing like them.They are depictions of love shaped by new labels and new identities navigated by a new generation.

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:40 IST

Cold truths: Does food taste better after a night in the fridge?

Zoom into a refrigerated curry at the molecular level and nothing is still. The moving molecules can make meats more aromatic the next day and salads soggy. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:03 IST

The odd squad: On World Environment Day, meet the strangest species around us

Leaf sheep can steal chloroplasts from algae, which it then uses to turn sunlight into energy, whenever algae itself becomes scarce. (WIKIMEDIA)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:07 IST

A cannon event: A Wknd chat with Stella Prize winner Lee Lai

(Photo: Laurence Philomene)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 13:03 IST

Worlds per minute: Poonam Saxena writes on the typewriter as an agent of change

Snapshots from the ’60s: Elisabeth Moss is Peggy Olson, secretary-turned-copywriter, on the TV series Mad Men (2007-15). (Above right) An advertisement for a Godrej device.

Updated on May 30, 2026 10:36 IST

Strangled at sea: Inside the race to get ghost gear out of the oceans

Ghost gear traps and kills an estimated 136,000 seals, sea lions and large whales worldwide each year, according to World Animal Protection. (The Pearl Protectors)

Updated on May 30, 2026 10:34 IST

To Die For: Excerpted recipes from an unusual new cookbook

The grave of Annabelle Gunderson, who ran a local car dealership with her husband in Northern California, immortalises the snickerdoodles she made for firefighters in wildfire season, to help keep them going. (James Jelin / To Die For)

Updated on May 30, 2026 09:32 IST

Rolls, roasts, cookies: A new book collects recipes left on gravestones

Cindy Clark-Newby’s recipe for no-bake cookies.

Updated on May 30, 2026 09:39 IST

Going once, going twice... going viral: Meet the new-age auctioneer

Liang-Lin Chen of Christie’s in Hong Kong is known for her calm but warm manner, ready smile, easy wit - and for her trademark qipaos, often in purple, turquoise or midnight blue, with a hint of shimmer. (Christie’s)

Updated on May 30, 2026 10:39 IST

Heard instinct: Sanjoy Narayan is on the hunt for new routes to music

The People’s Party hosted by Femi Koleoso of Ezra Collective is one of several remarkable offerings on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Updated on May 29, 2026 16:00 IST

A running start: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on India’s new sprinting records

Gurindervir Singh is the man hopes will be riding on, in the coming years. He’s 25 and just blazed to a 10.09 finish in the 100m. (Photo: Reliance Foundation Youth Sports)

Updated on May 29, 2026 15:57 IST

Cool aid: What will it take to offset carbon cost of comfort in a warming world?

An estimated 8% to 10% of Indian households currently own an air-conditioner. As this figure rises, alongside summer temperatures, we’re not yet ready – but we could be. (Unsplash)

Updated on May 29, 2026 15:22 IST

Code red: What it will take to make it through summer

(HT Imaging via ChatGPT & Midjourney)

Updated on May 29, 2026 15:19 IST

Exit wounds: Ann Patchett on books, writing, family, and the power of love

‘There are tremendous benefits to stability in family, and there are benefits to chaos... in the end, I don’t think there’s any family that’s not going to bruise,’ says Patchett, 62.

Updated on May 29, 2026 14:40 IST

Ctrl + Alt + Deplete: Charles Assisi writes on why we all seem overwhelmed

Untitled (1967), by Mozambican painter and poet Malangatana Ngwenya, set during the country’s War of Independence from Portugal. Most of us do not live amid conflict, threat or need. Yet, even when nothing seems wrong, the unease remains. (Tate Galleries)

Updated on May 23, 2026 15:23 IST

Making cents of currency: Adam Jacot de Boinod writes on alternatives to money

Chinese men carry bricks of tea, of the kind used as currency, to Tibet, as documented by British explorer EH Wilson in 1908. (Wikimedia)

Updated on May 23, 2026 15:20 IST

What were you expecting? Two new books unpack surprises about motherhood

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on May 23, 2026 13:49 IST

A newt dawn: Whitley awardee Barkha Subba discusses her fight for salamanders

(Photo by Anirban Datta Roy)

Updated on May 24, 2026 07:21 IST

Something to riff through: A reading guide to Miles Davis, by Rachel Lopez

Art from Miles and the Search for the Sound (2023).

Updated on May 22, 2026 13:54 IST

Hear, there, everywhere: How Miles Davis left his mark on the Global South

Davis at the Zenith Jazz Festival in Paris in 1989. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 22, 2026 13:39 IST

A million Miles: In his 100th year, see how Miles Davis revolutionised jazz

(Images: Getty, Wikimedia; HT Imaging)

Updated on May 22, 2026 13:30 IST

Shear mastery: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Sheep Detectives

Hugh Jackman reads to his herd, in The Sheep Detectives. Based on a German novel from 2005, the story, unusually, finds the beauty in clouds without silver linings.

Updated on May 22, 2026 10:54 IST

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