Blame Canada
The Toronto International Film Festival has propelled the Hollywood hype machine for the past 50 years. Here are the newest causes for excitement
The Man Behind the Alien Mask
Bolaji Badejo was a six-foot-10-inch Nigerian graphic-design student in London until a chance pub encounter made him Ridley Scott’s most elegant monster
The Queen’s Gambit
Meyerbeer’s Ozymandian masterpiece Les Huguenots
The Designer Who Set Women Free
In contrast to Dior’s waist-cinching “New Look,” Claire McCardell’s “American Look” brought comfort to women’s fashion
Helen Rice’s Guide to Charleston
The artist, shopkeeper, and co-founder of the branding agency Fuzzco shares her favorite spots in her hometown
The Sway of Peter Sellers
Woody Allen, Christopher Guest, and Geoffrey Rush recall the influence of the great comic actor, who was born 100 years ago
Face Time
From Whitney Houston to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Louise Bourgeois to Kate Moss, a new coffee-table book collects a lifetime of portraits by the photographer Bruce Weber
Water Falling at Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest achievement is suffering from a bad case of nominative determinism
Fifty Shades of Heathcliff
Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights—where Victorian British yearning meets Down Under B.D.S.M.—has the literary set clutching their pearls
Grandmother Courage
The little-known story of the Argentinean women who fought to reclaim their stolen grandchildren—and helped topple a dictatorship
Laufey
With her new album, A Matter of Time, the 26-year-old Icelandic-Chinese singer, known for blending jazz into pop music, leaves behind the innocent image that once defined her
Inside “the Playpen”
Booze, jet packs, “Join, or Die” flags, and the occasional severed limb: welcome to Chicago’s most controversial party spot
When Gen Z Discovered Dubya
On this week’s podcast, Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz explain why Gen Z thinks George W. Bush is so cool
Chez Picasso
From the Côte d’Azur to the Rue des Grands-Augustins, a new exhibition in Dublin maps the artist’s career through the various French homes where he worked
Both Sides Now
Meet Harriet Walter, master-mistress of Shakespearean voices, now onstage in Bath
She Come Groovin’ Up Slowly
How Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the wife of the infamous psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary, sparked one of the Beatles’ greatest hits
Rosa Esteva’s Guide to Majorca
The fashion designer and founder of Cortana shares her favorite spots on the island she calls home
The Price of Being a Kennedy
The show-runner and producer of a new documentary series ask, Why is the world still obsessed with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy?
