Win or Die
Game of Thrones was a flop when it first aired 10 years ago. Its final episode set an all-time U.S. record with 16.5 million live viewers. What changed?
Bon Voyage!
A new book collects the best of airport style, from an impossibly bouncy-haired Dolly Parton to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin
Has Hunter Biden Written the Season’s Best Book?
It’s up for debate—as is the best way to drop the lockdown weight, and what exactly makes someone the new It Girl
The Sex Queen of Paris
Madame Claude schooled high-priced prostitutes for clients such as J.F.K. and Onassis. Now she gets the Netflix treatment
The H-Word
David Cowles and Josh Gosfield’s new magazine, Public Eye, invites great artists to create works based on a theme. First up: heroes, as introduced by the talk-show host in Public Eye’s opening pages
Playing with Fyre
The bizarre, ongoing story of Billy McFarland, the mastermind behind the music-festival fiasco who started a podcast behind bars
Neon Dion
The Bronx’s doo-wop prince is also a soulful rock ’n’ roller whose catalogue is as deep as it is vast
Opera Pick of the Week
Munich’s Bavarian State Opera streams Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, starring American mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey
Splendor in the Grass
The story of how Central Park and its beating heart, the bucolic Sheep Meadow, came to be
Revisionist History
Churchill gets a bad rap for the 1943 Tehran conference, where Roosevelt and Stalin won out. Looking back, the Old Lion might have been right all along
Notes from Underground
Harriet Tubman left behind no written history of her life, but her stories—of the Underground Railroad and the allies she made along the way—live on
Collecting Intelligence
The author and friend of John le Carré’s, whose radio tribute to the espionage writer is out now, traces the arc of le Carré through his most memorable books
Dial M for Mail
If Alfred Hitchcock contained multitudes, his films contained infinitudes in the eyes of his viewers, who wrote him too many letters to count
Sonic Cinema
When you can’t make it to the movies (or just don’t want to), satisfy your filmic desires with these songs from Lou Reed, Lyle Lovett, Ellen Foley, and more
Dogs—They’re Just Like Us!
Before quarantine puppies, there were Magnum dogs, photogenic canines immortalized alongside their owners by Philippe Halsman, Inge Morath, and others
Advice-by-Numbers
Professor and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson shares his red-hot rules for life
Border Crossing
Alejandro Iñárritu, the Mexican filmmaker behind the Academy Award–winning Birdman and The Revenant, is bringing the immigrant experience to V.R.
