Naked Dating and the Millionaire Misogynist
Plus: why Buzz Bissinger is preparing to leave America
Voice of a Generation
A one-woman spoken-word odyssey of Kurt Cobain’s life has captured the attention of critics, and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Freudian Tip
A new book suggests Sigmund Freud would not have been the father of psychoanalysis history remembers him as were it not for his wife, Martha
A Moveable Feast
A road trip along France’s Côte d’Azur, with stops at five 20th-century modernist houses along the way
Bad Samaritans
From Glyndebourne, Ethyl Smyth’s ill-starred, tremendous The Wreckers (1906), at last in the original French
Shelf Life
Veteran book editors are getting pushed aside in the publishing industry’s mad dash for youth
Floral Tribute
A dazzling new coffee-table book explores the flower in contemporary photography
Crimes of the Mind
How a journalist turned screenwriter stumbled onto the unbelievable but true story that became Rogue Agent
A Big Show for a Big Week
Welcome to our 100th episode
Child’s Play
For the past 25 years, South Park has been an equal-opportunity offender. One writer can’t get enough
Second-Guessing Puccini
Live from Salzburg 2022, Asmik Grigorian takes on the trifecta Il Trittico
Vivienne Acheampong
With The Sandman, a Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic book, the actress has entered the DC universe
It’s the Summer of Frump
Sun’s out—but buns are not out. You can blame the boom in “granny style”
