The Cellblock A-List
You never know who you’ll meet in prison! Nicolás Maduro has just been admitted to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, a jail so historically filled with the famous it practically has a velvet rope outside it
The Cult of Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Norwegian writer inspires a reverence bordering on worship among his mostly male fans. He can bring grown men to tears with a single sentence
The Last Movie Star
Leonardo DiCaprio and the director Paul Thomas Anderson discuss their Oscar-tipped hit, One Battle After Another, the future of cinema—and whether Jack really had to die in Titanic
Gerran Howell
With roles alongside George Clooney and Benedict Cumberbatch under his belt, and a growing spate of online fangirls, the Welsh actor returns to The Pitt as a second-year medical resident
Zen and the Art of JB Blunk
Inspired by the American sculptor, lifelong Buddhist, and master of handmade objects, an exhibition in California showcases candleholders created by more than 100 international artists and designers
Gone with the Winds
How an unexpected shift in the weather brought news of the Chernobyl disaster to the West—and marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union
Soledad Twombly’s Guide to Buenos Aires
The fashion designer behind Rome’s beloved L’Archivio di Monserrato shares her go-to spots in her hometown
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part III
Norman Mailer swore he’d never work with Lawrence Schiller again. But financial need changed his mind—and literary history
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II
Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller’s Marilyn: A Biography sold more copies than anything Mailer ever wrote. He also believed it cost him a Nobel Prize
Emily Bader
Armed with a natural curiosity and a lifelong love of romance, the 29-year-old actress is taking on the lead role in the eagerly anticipated film adaptation of Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation
Let There Be Light
For more than a century, month-long exhibitions of J. M. W. Turner’s Romantic watercolors have chased away the January blues in Dublin and Edinburgh
Pretty Privilege for Sale
GLP-1s are making it possible to rig the genetic lottery. What happens to the people who can’t afford them?
Promising Young Women
Jean Seberg, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Agnès Varda … a coffee-table book pays tribute to the women of the French New Wave
Annie Doble’s Guide to Ibiza
The founder of Annie’s Ibiza shares her go-to spots in one of the cities she calls home
Love Child
Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid is the centerpiece of a new exhibition in London, marking the first time the 17th-century painting—a visionary work that helped usher in the Baroque—has gone on public view in the U.K.
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part I
How the unlikely, tumultuous partnership of Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced the true-crime masterpiece The Executioner’s Song
The Year of Umm Kulthum
The Egyptian singer’s millions of fans include Maria Callas, Bob Dylan, and Beyoncé
