At the age of 37, Cynthia Erivo has already had a richly varied career, winning a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy and channeling Harriet Tubman in “Harriet” and Aretha Franklin in “Genius: Aretha ...

Author DBC Pierre travels through Mexico on a personal odyssey to recount the fate of the Aztec civilization. In this extract, he investigates the unfolding of a legendary doomsday prophecy.