Game Changer
Jung Ho-yeon has become the breakout star of Squid Game, and the new face of South Korea
When Trump Trumps Logic
Books on Donald Trump’s narcissism, by Michael Wolff, and financial misdeeds, by David Cay Johnston, sound a familiar alarm. Will people listen?
Goop Sex
Armed with a new Netflix series and an arsenal of vibrators, Gwyneth Paltrow invades the bedroom
Bland. James Bland
In No Time to Die, 007 is defeated … by the wokes
The Man Who Spawned Logan Roy
Jesse Armstrong, the creator of Succession, reveals his thoughts on the new season—and answers his critics
Dior Dreaming
Accompanying an exhibition on Christian Dior at New York’s Brooklyn Museum, an elegant volume spans the many iterations of the French fashion house
A Podcast You Can’t Refuse
There’s no omertà here … just lots of revealing information
The Godfather of The Godfather
How Mario Puzo turned his gambling addiction and fruitful imagination into the best Mob story of all time
Opera Pick of the Week
What’s better, sex or salvation? Tannhäuser, Wagner’s schizophrenic singer of courtly love songs, simply cannot decide
Faulty-Hearts Club
How Baby Fae, the 1980s infant who survived for several days with a baboon heart, paved the way for innovative new approaches to organ donation
Guilty Treasures
Allow yourself to indulge in these songs from Carly Rae Jepsen, the Guess Who, Stephen Bishop, Cher, and more
Chic Korea
Squid Game, Parasite, BTS—there’s a “K-” revolution afoot, and for once that prefix isn’t followed by “ardashian”
Around the World with Oscar Wilde
Following in Wilde’s footsteps, from his birthplace of Dublin to the Peloponnese, the American Midwest, and the prison he spent the better part of two years in
In London, Love (and Much More) Is in the Air
Frieze returns to town and gets the city hopping
Space Cadet
William Shatner goes where no actor has gone before
Susan Soon He Stanton
The playwright and screenwriter takes us into the Succession writers’ room
Underneath the Velvet Underground
Todd Haynes turns to documentary to get at the heart of Lou Reed’s 1960s New York City band
