A Midsummer Night’s Meistersinger
From the Salzburg Festival, Stefan Herheim’s legendary staging of Wagner’s marathon comedy
Staff Picks
Don’t miss a comedic cancer memoir from Delia Ephron; chronicles of a man retracing the steps of Alexander the Great; and the tale of an impostor journalist
Forgetting Sarah Palin
While trying to understand the current Republican Party, most journalists have ignored the woman who foreshadowed Donald Trump
A Dirty Business
A whistleblower from the factory of millionaire artist Damien Hirst paints a grim scene of low wages and employees knee-deep in formaldehyde
Noémie Merlant
The French actress is breaking into Hollywood the same way she stormed Paris from the provinces
Will Prince Andrew Tank the Firm?
He’s desperately clinging to Mummy in public, and that’s not good for Charles and William
Enter the Beaux-Arts
A new book highlights the gilded Beaux-Arts architecture of turn-of-the-last-century New York City
Fifth Ave. Pied-à-Terror
Correspondence reveals Vladimir Putin’s plan to annex unlisted properties on New York’s Upper East Side
The Man Who Invented Movies
While Thomas Edison is widely known as “the father of motion pictures,” a Frenchman by the name of Louis Le Prince actually got there first—and then disappeared
Tampa vs. Albany
The startling similarities and eerie differences between Tom Brady and Andrew Cuomo
Hallelujah!
From the National Theatre, London, a triumphant revival of Angels in America
Staff Picks
Don’t miss an investigation into the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting; a new biography of Harry Truman; and a Broadway memoir
Books and a Place to Read Them
From the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op, an ode to the quiet magic of independent bookshops around the country
Dancing on Air
In the second season of Bridgerton, dance—specifically, the ceremonious allemande—speaks louder than any professions of love
“Hold It Right There … ”
With a devoted following among the fashion crowd—and a girlfriend in Kate Moss—Nikolai von Bismarck is London’s photographer of the moment
India Ennenga and Sebastian Clark
The duo sending pocket-size books—collaborations with artists and writers—to people around the world
