Shred It! A new coffee-table book traces the unlikely rise of British skateboarding, beginning in the 1980s, when the sport found its own rainy, grungy identity far from its Californian roots
Mother Knows Best Gerald Tsai Jr. revolutionized Wall Street and put Fidelity on the map with the help of one unlikely adviser—his mother, Ruth, the first woman to trade on the floor of the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Latest Issue • May. 2, 2026
Issue
No. 355
Once upon a Time in Gala-Land
PLUS
THE TRIALS OF ELON
THE POD SQUAD
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
and more!
Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a fresh look at Mary Todd Lincoln, the real story of Rome’s gladiators, and a narrative examination of the Murdaugh murders
Small Town Girl Jayne Anne Phillips was a literary wunderkind who counted Sam Shepard and Jim Harrison among her fans. Her latest book revisits her childhood in rural Appalachia
Russia’s Greatest Love Machine Antony Beevor’s new biography of Grigori Rasputin argues that the controversial Russian adviser triggered the fall of Russia’s autocracy
All About Peter Six months after the release of Ira Sachs’s film Peter Hujar’s Day, three exhibitions in New York give long-overdue attention to the American photographer
