In the Heart of Combat
Bernard-Henri Lévy is out with the sequel to Why Ukraine?, bringing his viewers to the front lines during a turning point in the war
Rip-Off
A new documentary reveals how Pop-art founder Roy Lichtenstein made millions, while the comics artists he copied remained penniless. Was he a genius or a thief?
Going Viral
Ben Smith, the former BuzzFeed editor and New York Times columnist, discusses Fox’s firing of Tucker Carlson, the Gawker–Hulk Hogan scandal, and his new book on the age of disinformation, Traffic
Trumpie Dearest
Despite containing more than 150 letters, including his correspondence with Kim Jong Un, Oprah Winfrey, and Jair Bolsonaro, Letters to Trump barely qualifies as a book
Time in a Bottle
Brian d’Arcy James channels Jack Lemmon in the new musical Days of Wine and Roses
Why Did United Airlines Launch Men-Only Flights?
On this week’s podcast, Rich Cohen has the story of what could have been the official airline of Don Draper
One Hundred Years of Avedon
Ahead of Richard Avedon’s centennial exhibition, Derek Blasberg reflects on the man who revolutionized fashion photography, and the mark he left on the genre as a whole
America, à la Carte
An exhibition of vintage menus at New York’s Grolier Club celebrates the first 100 years of dining out in America
Amy Taubin’s “Carte Blanche”
The golden-age Village Voice critic and actress recalls the days of Warhol’s Factory and SoHo before tourists, as her film program debuts at New York’s MoMA
The Once and Future Ring, Part I
The Atlanta Opera’s livestream of Das Rheingold is just the beginning
Everyone’s Muse
In her new memoir, Jenny Boyd looks back on a life spent traveling the world with bands including Fleetwood Mac and the Beatles
Talking Trash
The author of a new essay collection about bad movies makes the case for treating trashy films like works of art
Zoe Lister-Jones
In her new TV series, Slip, the actress, writer, and director plays a woman whose orgasms send her traveling through time
Pirates of the Peking Express
The extraordinary, little-known story of the bandits who hijacked a Chinese sleeper train full of Westerners, including a Rockefeller heiress, on its way to Beijing
All Stations Go
Two new books offer an ode to historic train stations, from Roma Termini to Venice’s floating Santa Lucia to the London Underground, and the people who passed through them
Where Stage and Screen Collide
Benjamin Millepied, a former ballet principal and the choreographer for Black Swan, turns Georges Bizet’s classic opera, Carmen, on its head in his film debut, starring Paul Mescal
Fake It Till You Make It
He can mimic both Caravaggio and Rembrandt, and his art has been displayed in national galleries and royal households. But are Tony Tetro’s crimes also the sign of a more innocent age?
Power Player
In her debut season at the Metropolitan Opera, Nathalie Stutzmann, a former star contralto, makes sound in the “silent” role of maestro
