“The Book Really Wanted to Sing All Along”
The Metropolitan Opera presents the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo, an operatic adaptation of the 2017 novel by George Saunders
Gonzo in Paradise
When Hunter S. Thompson set out to cover the Honolulu Marathon—with a touch of cockfighting on the side—he first had to convince his old pal Ralph Steadman to join him …
The World According to Tina Barney
Raised among Lehmans and Paleys, the photographer didn’t pick up a camera until well into adulthood. Five decades later, an exhibition examines how her fashionable youth found its way into her groundbreaking work
Murder, They Wrote
The strange sinking of a luxury ocean liner! A train hijacking en route to London! Disasters punctuate this fall’s best mysteries…
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good Company
What’s it like to interview Larry David? The author of a new biography on the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator recalls 10 of his favorite exchanges
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a revelatory collection of Robert Frost’s letters; a history of Charlemagne’s empire; and a memoir from the producer of The Big Bang Theory
“He Told Me I Couldn’t Act!”
Michael Douglas on working with Oliver Stone, what’s missing in Hollywood today, and that scene in Fatal Attraction
The Cincinnati Kid
An exhibition in the Queen City pays homage to the town’s favorite adopted son, Charley Harper, the nature artist who gave birds, bugs, and beasts a midcentury makeover
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a portrait of F.D.R. on the eve of World War II; Italy through the eyes of The New York Times’s Rome bureau chief; and James Sallis’s final noir
Lost and Found
After a 57-year hiatus from the New York stage, George Balanchine’s most notorious ballet, Pithoprakta, makes its return
Love, Paint, and Fury
Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock’s relationship was turbulent, at times violent, and one of the greatest creative partnerships of the 20th century
Horse Power
With an introduction by Tracey Emin and works by Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, and Man Ray, a new coffee-table book examines centuries of art’s most enduring muse
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss Simon Sebag Montefiore’s timely history of the modern Middle East, the Madeline author’s madcap 1952 memoir, and a publishing powerhouse’s ode to editing
The Fashion Photographer Who Wasn’t
An exhibition in Paris examines Irving Penn’s profound influence on the genre he never quite claimed as his own
Only Messiahs in the Building
A new documentary revisits the fabled 1972 Toronto Godspell production that launched the careers of Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, and Victor Garber
The Diagnose-It-Yourself Presidential Check-up
The parlor game that’s sweeping the nation!
The Real Tom Brady
A new biography of the greatest quarterback of all time scrapes off the gloss to reveal the insecure and ruinously ambitious man beneath