Hockney Hour
“I don’t know why they’re going on about me smoking. I mean I’m 84 now”: an afternoon in Normandy with David Hockney
Once and for All
Some acts get lucky, and some don’t. We’ve collected the songs for those who lie somewhere in between: the one-hit wonders
Libraries of Dreams
A new volume compiles photographs of the world’s oldest and most groundbreaking book collections
The Id of Ali G
In an exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book, Judd Apatow talks with Sacha Baron Cohen about the origins of Borat, Ali G, and his other creations
Nicolas Lefebvre
The mysterious Frenchman making art out of his collector’s items—and keeping mum on his relationship with Monica Bellucci
Ukraine Answers, “To Be!”
From the Lviv National Opera, the long-suppressed folkloric pageant When the Fern Blooms blazes with heroic national fervor
Genius at Play
Three decades on, the return of Mary Zimmerman’s breakout theater piece The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
A Turn-of-the-Century Patricia Highsmith
The modernist writer Katherine Mansfield offended everyone from T. S. Eliot to E. M. Forster. Her fiction was so witty that the literary world forgave her
Staff Picks
Don’t miss a self-help guide from a former MTV V.J., a collection of interviews with women over 50, and a captivating book about our shrinking attention span
Oscar Season
Mad, sad, and legendarily bad, Oscar Levant was the showbiz answer to Oscar Wilde. After being forgotten for decades, is Hollywood’s greatest wit ready for his comeback?
Panic Stations
Songs for the faint of heart, from Helen Reddy, Floyd Cramer, Bo Diddley, and more
Trading Places
The little-known story of Otto Skorzeny, the Führer’s favorite commando leader turned Israeli spy
The Making of Caitlyn
A former Vanity Fair editor tells how one of the biggest magazine stories ever—on Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlyn—came to be
