Opera Pick of the Week
As the Metropolitan Opera returns to live performance, an easy fix for fans hooked on the company’s once-complimentary nightly streams
Great Minds …
Both Albert Einstein and Marie Curie visited America during the Roaring 20s. It left a lasting impression
Art Basel is Back!
The 50th edition of the famed art fair features work by artists as varied as Camille Pissarro and Kara Walker
Taking a Vaxxation
Here’s why so many Americans are unwilling to get a shot
Rumbled in the Jungle
The 1974 championship bout between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, in Zaire, forever changed the lives of both fighters—and the writers who covered it
The Anderson Tapes
The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper takes a candid look at the Vanderbilts, the historic American dynasty from which his mother, Gloria, hailed
The Man Behind Roger Ailes and Winston Churchill
John Lithgow joins the show
A Pre–Mean Girls Burn Book
The second in an unredacted three-part release of socialite Chips Channon’s diaries is as snobbish, spiteful, and addictive as the first
The Met Ball Hall of … Fame?
If you thought this year’s event looked like a cross between Halloween and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, you aren’t alone. They don’t call it the “Costume” Institute for nothing
North Korea as You’ve Never Seen It
Stéphan Gladieu’s otherworldly photos take viewers where they’ve never been allowed to go—inside Pyongyang
Capers Corner
A soundtrack for the mischievous, from Joe Jackson, Jimmy Cliff, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, and more
Hurts So Good
Once he made it to the top, the rough-around-the-edges, all-American rock star John Mellencamp found out he was really on the bottom
Opera Pick of the Week
More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore
Science Fiction
A new book reveals the misogyny and fabrications behind the discovery of DNA, one of the most misunderstood whodunits in science history
Holding Court
Hilary Mantel, author of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy and expert on all things royal, thinks the English monarchy will end with Prince William
