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Miserly Musketeer

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

Goy Makes Good

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

Body Language

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

Murder, They Wrote

Cloud Atlas

A new book explores the 10 regions, from Australia to Ethiopia to outer space, that tell us where the world is headed next

Crypto Cowboys

Lit on the Rocks

Opera Pick of the Week

Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), Alexander von Zemlinsky’s decadent exploration of the female gaze, in rival productions from the transgressive hot spots of Amsterdam and Berlin

World on a String

Tony Sarg transformed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with his fantastical designs

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

Andrea Ferolla’s Sketchbook

A Gentleman (Murderer) in Paris

The Courage to His Couture

Beatlemania

Get ready for Get Back with this collection of Fab Four covers, from Lonnie Mack, Santo & Johnny, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Troy, and more

The Real Pulp Fiction

Hard Case Crime reissues the best in hard-boiled crime novels—and has turned Stephen King into a contributor

High Rollers

A new coffee-table book pays homage to the hottest roller disco of 1980s West Hollywood: Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace

Good Eggs

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

The Only Podcast You Need

Weekends are for tuning out the world … and tuning in to Morning Meeting

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

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