Oct 11, 2026
Author Spotlight: Nana Patekar — The Fire Bollywood Never Learned to Hold
A deep dive on Nana Patekar — the Murud-Janjira-born poster painter who became one of Indian cinema's most intense actors and died on 8 October 2026, aged 75; the three-time National Film Award winner whose rage and tenderness burned through Parinda, Krantiveer, Agni Sakshi and Natsamrat; the honorary Lieutenant Colonel who served in the Kargil War; the co-founder of the Naam Foundation for Maharashtra's farmers; and his five defining reflections on hunger as a teacher, the anger that acting saved him from, the only religion he believed in, the soldiers he called India's greatest weapon, and a life that never put money first.
Nana Patekar
Oct 8, 2026
Author Spotlight: Eva Marie Saint — The Last Star of Hollywood's Golden Age
A deep dive on Eva Marie Saint — the Oscar-winning actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in her very first film, On the Waterfront, opposite Marlon Brando, then became Cary Grant's cool and dangerous Eve Kendall in Hitchcock's North by Northwest; the Emmy winner for People Like Us who stepped back from stardom to raise a family and kept working into her nineties; her defining reflections on going with the flow, on being proud simply to be walking and breathing and loving at 90, on choosing children over being a superstar, and on refusing to promise Hitchcock she would stop making the dramas she loved; and the legacy of a performer who lived to 102, died the oldest living Academy Award winner, and remained one of the last living links to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Eva Marie Saint
Oct 5, 2026
Author Spotlight: Dakota Johnson — The Actress Who Says the True Thing
A deep dive on Dakota Johnson — the Austin-born daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith who grew up on film sets, broke through as Anastasia Steele in the Fifty Shades trilogy, and became one of the most reliably honest interview subjects in Hollywood; the actor behind Suspiria, The Lost Daughter, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Daddio and Materialists whose time on the Madame Web press tour turned self-aware candour into a public art form; the woman Taylor Swift called 'synonymous with refreshing honesty' in her 2026 TIME100 tribute; her defining reflections on truth-telling, rootlessness, risk, failure and the cost of growing up famous; and the legacy of a performer who has made a second reputation out of simply refusing to pretend — back in the spotlight as host of Saturday Night Live and star of Verity.
Dakota Johnson
Oct 3, 2026
Author Spotlight: Bella Ramsey — The Actor Who Said Out Loud What Most People Keep Inside
A deep dive on Bella Ramsey — the Nottingham-born actor who began professionally at eleven as Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones, won a BAFTA for The Worst Witch, and became the lead of HBO's The Last of Us as Ellie, earning two Emmy, two Golden Globe, two Critics' Choice and BAFTA nominations; the openly non-binary performer who revealed a 'freeing' autism diagnosis and has spoken with unusual calm about identity, fame, and not fitting in; their defining reflections on self-acceptance, belonging, honesty, and taking up space; and the legacy of a young artist who has turned the most private parts of a public life into a language other people can use — back in the spotlight as a contestant on The Celebrity Traitors.
Bella Ramsey
Oct 2, 2026
Author Spotlight: Richard E. Grant — The Actor Who Turned Grief Into a Pocketful of Happiness
A deep dive on Richard E. Grant — the Swazi-English actor born Richard Grant Esterhuysen in Mbabane in 1957, who grew up with an alcoholic father and a fractured home, moved to London in 1982, and became one of the most beloved character actors of his generation as the perpetually drunk Withnail in Withnail and I; the four-decade career that spans Gosford Park, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Star Wars, and the Oscar-, BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me?; the memoirist and lifelong diarist whose A Pocketful of Happiness turned the death of his wife, the dialect coach Joan Washington, into one of the most honest books about love and loss of the decade; his defining reflections on happiness, grief, love and keeping a diary; and the legacy of a man who has made a second career out of teaching the world how to speak the names of the dead — back in the spotlight as a contestant on The Celebrity Traitors.
Richard E. Grant