The Seven-Year Hitch
Director Billy Wilder wanted sex in Marilyn Monroe’s comedy about infidelity—but Hollywood’s prohibitive censorship rules wouldn’t allow it
A Dutchman in Dublin
Gung-ho Wagner from the Irish National Opera
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a transfixing chronicle of the nuclear age, a look back at Cambridge’s queer history, and a portrait of everyday life in war-torn Ukraine
Shark Tales
In time for the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a new book reveals how Robert Shaw’s haunting monologue came to be
Alexandre de Betak’s Guide to Paris
The fashion show producer shares his favorite design shops in his hometown
A Photo Finish
Forty-five years after The Shining’s release, a reporter and an academic doggedly tracked down the original version of the eerie photograph that Kubrick chose to close the film with
The Great James Bond Renaissance
While the next 007 film languishes in Amazon purgatory, a new wave of book spin-offs are re-inventing the British spy for the next generation
Portrait of a Country on Fire
A new book of photographs by Mitch Epstein captures the devastating impact of industry on the American landscape—and the fragile pockets of nature that remain
Health Scare
Popular theories on why R.F.K. Jr. fired the entire C.D.C. vaccine advisory panel
Parade’s End
Trump’s birthday wish list has a lot more on it than just a Soviet-style military procession
Summer of Cézanne
In Aix-en-Provence, a wave of exhibitions pays tribute to the French painter
My Best Friendship with Kate Spade
The designer’s co-founder reveals how a broke student from Kansas named Katy Brosnahan became handbag maven “Kate Spade”
Bessie Carter
The daughter of Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter lands the lead role in the new Mitford-sisters series, Outrageous
Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding
On this week’s podcast, Stuart Heritage reports on what to expect at the bridezilla-iest wedding ever
Lisa’s Mystery Picks
This week, don’t miss an Agatha Christie–meets–P. G. Wodehouse murder mystery, a police procedural by the creator of Broadchurch, and a whodunit set in a Maine retiree town
Blanca Miró Scrimieri’s Guide to Barcelona
The Spanish fashion designer and co-founder of La Veste shares her favorite spots in her hometown
White Knight In the Trauma Center
From Paris, Kirill Serebrennikov’s off-the-rails Lohengrin
The Real Jay Gatsby
Did F. Scott Fitzgerald model his titular character after his real-life Princeton school-mate?
