The Soul Singer from North London On the 10th anniversary of George Michael’s death, a new biography revisits the “Father Figure” singer’s complex relationship with American R&B
Slouching Towards Istanbul What a decade in Erdoğan’s authoritarian Turkey taught me about the long, bloody shadow of America’s foreign wars
Latest Issue • May. 30, 2026
Issue
No. 359
Inside the Search for Nancy Guthrie
PLUS
THE ART OF THE STEAL
THE DUKE OF HAZARD
BAD HEIR DAY
and more!
Murder, They Wrote This month in mysteries: James Comey’s new espionage thriller and the latest installment in Anthony Horowitz’s meta-mystery series
Fire Island Time A new coffee-table book looks beyond the island’s reputation as a queer summer utopia, revealing it, for the first time, as a creative hub that influenced artists from Richard Avedon to Wolfgang Tillmans
The Unstoppable Jasper Johns A retrospective in Bilbao, Spain, collects decades of work by the last great living survivor of the postwar generation
