Keeping Up with the Gould-Gessens
This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama
Cézanne’s Final Act
With more than 70 works, an exhibition in Switzerland pays tribute to the revolutionary Post-Impressionist’s late period
“The Holy Grail of Shipwrecks”
A new book charts one man’s decades-long search for the lost Spanish galleon featured in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in a Time of Cholera
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a biography of the literary critic who championed Faulkner and Kerouac; a study of “vampire panics”; and a fresh translation of Thucydides’s history of the Peloponnesian War
Dita Von Teese’s Guide to Los Angeles
The Queen of Burlesque shares her go-to spots in the city she calls home
Rule, Britannia!
After 250 years, King Charles has made the shrewd decision to revoke America’s independence
Rodney Everlasting
With the magic of Wes Anderson, the imagination of René Magritte, and the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, Rodney Smith’s photographs—collected in a new coffee-table book—create a fantastical world untouched by time
100 Years of Martha Graham
Amidst its centennial tour, the Martha Graham Dance Company channels its legacy of resistance and protest with a new piece from the choreographer Hope Boykin, set to a reimagined Leonard Bernstein score
Daddy Issues
To the outside world, my father was a gifted and accomplished author. To his family, he was a self-destructive and deeply flawed man
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part IV
Norman Mailer snubbed Lawrence Schiller when accepting the Pulitzer Prize for The Executioner’s Song. But that didn’t stop Schiller from cutting Mailer in on his latest exclusive: Lee Harvey Oswald’s K.G.B. files
Marcus Samuelsson and Andrew Chapman’s Guide to Harlem
The duo behind Red Rooster share their go-to restaurants in the New York neighborhood
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
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
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
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 first-year medical resident
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
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
