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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook II

The Summer of Discontent for the .1 Percent

Their fancy private jets can’t land; they’re angry at an Eleven Madison Park co-founder … Life is very, very hard

Rebel with a Cause

The Noblest Roman of Them All

Ben Whishaw’s bespectacled Brutus dominates a Julius Caesar for our time

Plot Twist

In his forthcoming novel, The Twist of a Knife, Anthony Horowitz has taken a metaphysical approach to revenge by killing the Sunday Times theater critic

Notes from Underground

Winning Formula

Just like Tom Cruise hurling through the sky with more than twice the g-forces some astronauts endure during rocket launches, it will be real races and real cars for Brad Pitt in the Top Gun: Maverick director’s next film

Duncan Hannah’s Sketchbook

You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto

Going Rogue

Eight questions with Patrick Radden Keefe, best known for his accounts of the Irish Troubles and the Sacklers, whose new book profiles all manner of crooks

The Rhys Woman

Never a Dull Moment

The French photographer Nicolas Rachline’s portraits evoke a colorful life on the move

Pete Doherty’s Wasteland

Hard drugs, a spell in prison, and matching tattoos with Kate Moss—the Libertines singer’s new confessional memoir doesn’t miss a beat

“Defense Debbies” and the Rise of Gun-Loving Mothers

Thanks to Instagram, “arms and the woman” is a style statement

Faith Restored

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Tale of Two Bobs

A new documentary celebrates the Homeric labors of Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb—and ends with a cliff-hanger

Scooby Dooby Do …

Why go to Elvis chapels in Vegas when Frank Sinatra can perform the ring-a-ding-ding for you?

From Dame to Musk*

Love in the Heavens, Love on Earth

Live from San Francisco, Bright Sheng’s spacey Dream of the Red Chamber

Misery Loves Company

Ottessa Moshfegh’s bleak yet funny novels have earned her a cult following. Her new book takes things a step further

Talking Contradiction

Notes from the archive of the Jewish Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer show that even he, a renowned pacifist, was torn when it came to Israel and its place in the world

The Spy Who Came In from the Boudoir

A new biography of John le Carré reveals a private life rich in shenanigans, including a long-standing mistress

Beyond Face Value