Winston Churchill’s Alter Ego
An exhibition in London re-introduces Churchill as a painter—a hobby he took up in the summer of 1915, amidst the depressive slump that followed his ousting from the Admiralty
Mayday!
Cambridge’s most infamous party girl tips her hat to Dafydd Jones, the society photographer whose latest book captures more than 40 years of the school’s hedonistic May Balls
Bella Maclean
The 28-year-old star of Rivals was shocked to land the lead role in the Jilly Cooper adaptation—but she’s still along for the (very sexy) ride in the show’s second season
Steve Jobs’s Lost Decade
After being forced out of Apple in 1985, its founder spent 12 years running a floundering start-up. A new book claims this exile set the stage for Silicon Valley’s greatest comeback story
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a history of the North Korean personality cult, a Nobel laureate’s memoir of growing up in Communist Romania, and new essays by David Sedaris
Alexandre Gabriel’s Guide to São Paulo
The co-director of the Brazilian gallery Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel shares his go-to spots in the city he calls home
Form over Function
A new exhibition in Brooklyn showcases 140 garments by the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, whose work blurs the line between fashion and sculpture
Once upon a Time in Cannes
Forty years ago, Muammar al-Qaddafi threatened to blow up the Cannes Film Festival. The author attended anyway, with Griffin Dunne—and the rest is history
Stones on the Rocks
Over the course of 65 years, a few near divorces, and several drug busts, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’s creative partnership remains—however improbably—one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most enduring
Anna Konkle
The co-creator of Pen15 isn’t done thinking about childhood—only this time she’s sticking to her own in a brutal yet funny coming-of-age memoir
I Worked for the Real Wizard of the Kremlin
In early-aughts Moscow, Vladislav Surkov educated me on the finer points of “pop propaganda.” Now he’s the inspiration for Olivier Assayas’s new film
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
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
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
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
Stable Work
What my dead-end internship at a mediocre Saratoga Springs restaurant taught me about horse racing—and the food-service industry
