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Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age

From Montgomery Clift to Marlene Dietrich, a new book pulls back the curtain on the queer people behind many of history’s classic films

Less Was More

A new documentary explores the complicated legacy of Jule Campbell, the woman behind the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

007 Diaries

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Sketchbook

The Seven-Year Hitch

Director Billy Wilder wanted sex in Marilyn Monroe’s comedy about infidelity—but Hollywood’s prohibitive censorship rules wouldn’t allow it

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Island of Jared Kushner

On this week’s podcast, a look at the latest hustle from Trump’s son-in-law: a luxury resort with poisonous snakes

Fashion Forward

An exhibition in Paris celebrates Paul Poiret, the early-20th-century couturier who freed women from corsets and inspired designers from Christian Dior to John Galliano

Tadao Ando’s Lessons in Light

From Paris to Osaka to St. Louis, a new coffee-table book collects the Japanese architect’s bright, delicate designs, photographed by Richard Pare

A Dutchman in Dublin

Gung-ho Wagner from the Irish National Opera

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a transfixing chronicle of the nuclear age, a look back at Cambridge’s queer history, and a portrait of everyday life in war-torn Ukraine

Shark Tales

In time for the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a new book reveals how Robert Shaw’s haunting monologue came to be

Alexandre de Betak’s Guide to Paris

The fashion show producer shares his favorite design shops in his hometown

Health Scare

Popular theories on why R.F.K. Jr. fired the entire C.D.C. vaccine advisory panel

When We Were Young

Portrait of a Country on Fire

A new book of photographs by Mitch Epstein captures the devastating impact of industry on the American landscape—and the fragile pockets of nature that remain

My Best Friendship with Kate Spade

The designer’s co-founder reveals how a broke student from Kansas named Katy Brosnahan became handbag maven “Kate Spade”

Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding

On this week’s podcast, Stuart Heritage reports on what to expect at the bridezilla-iest wedding ever

Summer of Cézanne

In Aix-en-Provence, a wave of exhibitions pays tribute to the French painter

The Great James Bond Renaissance

While the next 007 film languishes in Amazon purgatory, a new wave of book spin-offs are re-inventing the British spy for the next generation

Bessie Carter

The daughter of Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter lands the lead role in the new Mitford-sisters series, Outrageous

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Photo Finish

Forty-five years after The Shining’s release, a reporter and an academic doggedly tracked down the original version of the eerie photograph that Kubrick chose to close the film with

Parade’s End

Trump’s birthday wish list has a lot more on it than just a Soviet-style military procession