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Leading with the Chin

Free Solo’s Jimmy Chin discusses his latest film, his forthcoming book of photography, and why the Hamptons are the bane of his existence

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Chosen Ones

Boeing’s Double Game

Why was a sole Boeing employee criminally charged in the 737 MAX debacle that cost 346 lives and at least $21 billion?

And Five, Six, Seven, Eight!

Lovers of Sondheim bolted to this gritty piano bar in Greenwich Village to grieve—and sing!

Crown of Thorns

A new book reveals the identity of the royal whom Meghan and Harry called out in their Oprah interview. Hint: he’s next in line to the throne

Nanny Diaries

A new book tells the story of Vivian Maier, the 20th-century nanny who led a secret life as a street photographer

Garbo Lives

Song Cycle

Music that forms a world apart from this mad one, from Koko Taylor, Janis Joplin, Rod Stewart, Doug Sahm, and more

Opera Pick of the Week

Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad

Café Noir

Guitar Hero

B. B. King has been called “the world’s greatest blues singer.” A new book argues that his guitar riffs are just as influential

Suspect Protection Program

History’s largest-ever counterterrorism investigation enlisted efforts from the U.S., the U.K., and Pakistan. Why was its main suspect allowed to run free?

De-sensitization Station

Songs you think you know, from Bruce Channel, Dion, the Staple Singers, and more

Dreaming Big

Murder, They Wrote

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Gang’s All Here

The first collection of Bruce Weber’s golden-retriever shots celebrates the dogs who never leave the photographer’s side, otherwise known as “the gang”

The Only Podcast You Need

The perfect way to spend a long holiday weekend—tune out the world and tune in to Morning Meeting

Flora Collins

The Brooklyn-based writer whose debut novel combines Freud, Jordan Peele’s Us, and her own upbringing

Body Language

Tom Ford Does Gucci

The former creative director of Gucci measures Ridley Scott’s movie about the Italian fashion dynasty that flamed out

Goy Makes Good

Fifty years after he directed the movie adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, Norman Jewison looks at his storied career

Miserly Musketeer

The co-creator of Tesla and founder of SpaceX shares his money-saving tips