Lunch with Chelsea Handler
The fast-talking, eternally saucy comedian sits down with host Bruce Bozzi to talk about auditioning potential lovers, escaping her family, and much more in our podcast Table for Two
Fresh, Fly, Fabulous!
A new coffee-table book chronicles 50 years of hip-hop style, from Queen Latifah to Dapper Dan, Slick Rick to Run-DMC
Nature Morte
A poet of transfiguration, the sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere discusses the emotions that warm her dark work
Exit Laughing
At La Monnaie, a posthumous premiere for On Purge Bébé, a prolific Belgian’s off-color comedy
Running Target
In the 1930s, Nazis tried to kill All Quiet on the Western Front. A new screen adaptation, in theaters now, proves its longevity
Staff Picks
Don’t miss an actor’s debut novel, a look at forgotten heroes of the Holocaust, and a travelogue of a family’s trip along Route 66
Blue Period
Roger Rosenblatt’s latest book combines prose and illustrations to explore mystery, his late daughter, and his recent eye surgery
Ada “Bricktop” Smith
The forgotten queen of Jazz Age Montmartre
To Catch a Klimt
Two long-hidden, hugely expensive, and very rare paintings by Gustav Klimt have suddenly popped up in Asia. Who’s the elusive art adviser behind them?
The Story Behind the Armie Hammer Story
Author James Kirchick takes listeners inside his reporting, and what it was like to speak with the actor
Sick or Genius?
Directors can’t stop making movies about tortured artists
Heart of Gold
Richard Cœur de Lion returns to the Royal Opera House at Versailles for the first time since the French Revolution
Blonde Ambition
In an interview, Pamela Anderson discusses Hugh Hefner, the sex tape with Tommy Lee, and her five failed marriages
Dirty Latin
If you want to know how Romans actually talked, then look at their obscene graffiti
Ottessa Moshfegh
The novelist behind My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Eileen—plus its screen adaptation, premiering at Sundance—reveals her travel routine