Old-School
A new book looks at the persistent inequality at Clinton High School, the first all-white school ordered to de-segregate in the 1950s
Bad Girls’ Book Club
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert cancels her latest novel because it’s set in Siberia. What’s next? Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky removed from our libraries?
Truth or Derrière?
On this week’s podcast, Linda Wells explains how we find ourselves living in the Era of the Butt
Lunch with Rita Wilson
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the actress and singer reveals what she learned about aging from Nora Ephron and Bruce Springsteen, how Melanie Griffith stayed warm in the 70s, and much more …
The Phantom of Jacobus Vrel
Paris sees the opening of the first-ever exhibition devoted to a mysterious 17th-century Dutch artist whose works were long attributed to Vermeer
Freedom, According to Azzedine Alaïa and Arthur Elgort
A dazzling new book celebrates the joyful, lively collaboration of a legendary designer and a master photographer
Written in the Stars
The seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Wes Anderson has made the funniest, most heartfelt, and most poignant film of his career
Grace Edwards
The young actress steps into Wes Anderson’s pastel world to play a young botanist in Asteroid City
Life in the Fast Lange
The first full-length biography of Jessica Lange reveals how the actress’s bohemian 1960s lifestyle paved the way for her acting career
Face Value
Inside South Korea’s booming plastic-surgery district, where hundreds of faces and bodies are tweaked every day
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mystery books, we recommend reading former F.B.I. director James Comey’s crime-fiction debut, which draws from a lengthy career in and out of the courtroom
Laya DeLeon Hayes
For her latest role, the young actress stars in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, a modern twist on Frankenstein
Design Within Reach
Architect Lina Ghotmeh is sprucing up the Serpentine Gallery, just in time for its big summer party
In the Eye of the Storm
Paul McCartney’s Pentax photos from 1964—the year that marked the band’s American tour, and the start of Beatlemania—are collected in a new book