When Larry McMurtry Met the Merry Pranksters
The biographer of the pre-eminent Texas chronicler recounts an infamous encounter with Ken Kesey’s gang of LSD enthusiasts, later immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a roadmap to saving America’s public high schools, a cartographer’s analysis of the Dark Ages, and a guide to coping with our most difficult emotions
Tessa Tran’s Guide to Hanoi
The creative director and C.E.O. of Chan Luu shares her go-to spots in the Vietnamese capital
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mysteries: a return of Tana French’s retired cop, Cal Hooper, and a debut thriller about a female detective investigating a strange cold case
“Serious Photographs Disguised as Entertainment”
With the arrival of warmer weather, two new coffee-table books revisit the late Martin Parr’s wry pictures—and the environmental warning simmering beneath them
Matisse’s Last Act
An exhibition in Paris collects more than 230 works created by the French artist in his last decade, when illness confined him to a life in bed that sparked a spectacular burst of creativity
Ella Stiller
After discovering a knack for comedy at Juilliard, Ben Stiller’s 23-year-old daughter is now starring alongside Lisa Kudrow in the third and final season of The Comeback
The Making of Hannah Montana
On the show’s 20th anniversary, one zillennial goes behind the scenes of the Disney Channel juggernaut that launched a 13-year-old Miley Cyrus and captivated a generation
The Last Gentleman
My father, George Plimpton, was chivalrous, charming, and always a little out of reach
Thomas Dane’s Guide to Naples
The English gallerist shares his go-to spots in one of the cities he calls home
Dishing with Ruthie Rogers
In an exclusive excerpt from the River Cafe impresario’s forthcoming book, Wes Anderson, Paul McCartney, Tina Fey, David Beckham, and others talk all things food, from microwave dinners to caviar
The Making of Ai Weiwei
A new coffee-table book traces the artist’s humble beginnings in China, the exiles and travel bans he endured, and the radical works he created along the way
Cinema Paraíso
With its glory days as Brazil’s Hollywood long behind it, the northern city of Recife is having a film renaissance, powering productions such as the Oscar–nominated The Secret Agent
To Florence, with Love
Organized by his son, Christopher, an exhibition at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi traces Mark Rothko’s career—and his enduring ties to the Italian city—with more than 70 paintings
Timothée Chalamet Is Missing the Pointe
In an interview, the Oscar-nominated—and LaGuardia-educated!—actor dismissed ballet and opera as art forms “no one cares about.” How could he forget where he came from?
Writing a Screenplay with 007
It’s 1977. You’re a Hollywood screenwriter working on a script with Sean Connery. Are you going to tell him his ideas are dumb?
The Reich Stuff
How former Nazi collaborators became France’s top culinary taste-makers
When Uptown Met Downtown
Fred Brathwaite—better known as Fab 5 Freddy—bridged the worlds of punk and hip-hop, graffiti and high art
Mickalene Thomas’s Guide to Brooklyn
The American artist shares her go-to spots in the neighborhood she calls home
