The Secret History
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum sheds light on the story of the famed Ephrussi family, told by Edmund de Waal in The Hare with Amber Eyes
High Rollers
A new coffee-table book pays homage to the hottest roller disco of 1980s West Hollywood: Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace
Full Frontal Louis
In his 1964 best-seller, The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss shrank from taking on sexual predation in New England prep schools. Four decades later, he made up for it
World on a String
Tony Sarg transformed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with his fantastical designs
Opera Pick of the Week
From San Francisco, an intriguing new take on Così fan tutte, Mozart’s politically scandalous, musically sublime comedy of deception
Kids Those Days
During W.W. II, Albert Camus befriended an unlikely Resistance network: a group of children. Their plight helped inspire his masterpiece
Into the Blue
Feeling internally defoliated, beset with bleakness, and sorrowful to a Scandinavian degree? It’s just fall. Herewith, tracks to set the tone
See No Evil
When Hollywood optioned Albert Speer’s self-serving memoir, the Nazi architect found willing collaborators
The Podcast Everyone’s Talking About
Smart takes, a new issue, and the inside story on the making of the U.S. version of The Office. Morning Meeting has it all
Matthias Schweighöfer
The German actor, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, discovered Western cinema when the Berlin Wall fell
All Hail the King
A new book looks back at the singular life and illustrious career of American singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole
The Trumper’s Dilemma
What’s a Trump aide to do after a lost election? A new book reveals the roads taken by Jared Kushner and Rudy Giuliani—and their disastrous effects
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin
Ricky Gervais, Greg Daniels, Jenna Fischer, Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and others tell the unlikely story of how the U.S. Office came to be
Not Your Classic Hollywood Ending
The Game of Thrones finale is as controversial today as it was the night it first aired, in 2019. Now we know why
Opera Pick of the Week
With the recital album Baritenor, the singer-scholar Michael Spyres mines music history for sheer delight
Highsmith Confidential
Newly released diaries reveal Patricia Highsmith’s affair with a married woman—and an uncharacteristically tender side to the infamous author
