Big Tobacco, but for Big Fish
Investigating the dark underbelly of salmon farming, journalists find echoes of the oil and tobacco industries
Murder, They Wrote
Killers, poseurs, and arrivistes … criminals with social ambition and a taste for vengeance dominate this month’s new mystery novels
What a Glorious Feeling!
Seventy years after Singin’ in the Rain splashed its way through theaters, it remains perhaps the greatest movie musical ever made
Finnish Firecracker
Live from Helsinki: Karita Mattila, diva without borders
La Vie en Azur
A new book celebrates the sun-soaked and star-studded legacy of the French Riviera
Beethoven in the Fjord
Norway’s superstar of the keyboard, Leif Ove Andsnes, directs a chamber-music festival in his own backyard
The Big Books of Summer
A smart list of hot titles you won’t want to miss
A Numbers Game
We associate algebra, geometry, and calculus with practicality and logic. But the origins of math are as mysterious as any scripture
WackyLeaks
“Excerpts” from Ginni Thomas’s e-mails attempting to overturn the 2020 election …
The Artist’s Gaze
Panned by critics, loved by Jack Nicholson and Madonna, the Scottish artist Jack Vettriano discusses his provocative art, collected in a new show
The Hard-Crusted Softy in Winter
Ten years after Gore Vidal’s death, the one biographer to remain friendly with the prickly master reveals poignant details of his final years
Charlie Siem
The violin virtuoso and Dior model making classical music cool
End of the Line
A Streetcar Named Desire rolls into the 21st century, starring Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster
Second Act
At 46 years old, Joanna Quinn finally published the novel she’s been wanting to write for decades. Now it’s shaping up to be the book of the summer (and fall)
Staff Picks
Don’t miss a detailed account of Harvey Weinstein’s rise and fall; the inside story of the U.S.’s war against the Islamic State; and a history of Fire Island
