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Isabel May

Ahead of Sunday’s 1883 finale, the Hollywood starlet looks onward

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Kindred Spirits

Medieval Chivalry for the Modern World

Director Joe Wright’s new anti-musical musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac has shades of his own off-screen love triangle

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Brangelina for Gen Z?

Yup, Tom Holland and Zendaya have more than 189 million Instagram followers, and their films made upward of $2.4 billion last year

The Queen’s Gambit

Immersive midsummer madness from the Bridge Theatre, London

I Spy …

A Match Made in Hell

How to Get Away with Murder

A Fistful of Donald

For $75, you too can buy a gaudy, gold-accented coffee-table book featuring all things Trump. Proceeds go to MAGA and Mar-a-Lago

Tablescapes of Dreams

A beautiful new decorating book by descendants of Nancy Astor and Nancy Lancaster pairs archival photos with a newly discovered recipe collection

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Winter of Soul

Warm tracks for cold days, from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Bobby Womack, Syl Johnson, Millie Jackson, and more

Worlds Apart

Yes, people who believe the Earth is flat still exist. Here’s how this radical conspiracy movement got its start—and how to get its believers to see the light

Murder, They Wrote

New mystery books by Cara Black, Lucy Foley, and Nina de Gramont, paired with a Georges Simenon classic, take on Paris and Agatha Christie

Diary of a Mad Max

Ink Different

Recalling an era where Richard Avedon and Bill Cunningham shot for underground independents, Chicago’s Art Institute goes inside the world of alternative magazines spanning the 70s to the 90s

More Is More

Skyhorse will seemingly publish anything, from the conspiracist screeds of Roger Stone and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the canceled essays of Norman Mailer

Jessica Plummer

She went from singing at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show to sharing the screen with Nicole Kidman. Now the actress takes a starring role in The Girl Before

Danielle Kosann’s Sketchbook

Trump Write Pretty One Day

On this week’s episode, James Wolcott shares what he discovered reading the ex-president’s coffee-table book

Laugh, Clown, Laugh!

Billy Bigelow meets Prince Charming in Jonas Kaufmann’s scorching Pagliacci

Prison Break

Incarcerated at just 25 years old, Daniel Genis spent a decade behind bars reading everything from Heidegger to Tolkien