Miserly Musketeer
The co-creator of Tesla and founder of SpaceX shares his money-saving tips
Tom Ford Does Gucci
The former creative director of Gucci measures Ridley Scott’s movie about the Italian fashion dynasty that flamed out
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”
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
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
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
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
The Only Podcast You Need
Weekends are for tuning out the world … and tuning in to Morning Meeting
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
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
Matthias Schweighöfer
The German actor, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, discovered Western cinema when the Berlin Wall fell