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A Wrinkle in Time

Toni Morrison, Truman Capote, Patti Smith … A new coffee-table book collects Richard Avedon’s portraits of his aging subjects

Of Monsters and Mangione

For a window into the motive of UnitedHealthcare killer Luigi Mangione, one biographer delved deep into the world of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s admirers

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Sky’s the Limit

From the Wright brothers’ near-fatal crashes to this year’s midair collision over the Potomac, failure has always been the cost of progress in aviation

Paula Wallace’s Guide to Savannah

The president and co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design shares her go-to spots in her adopted city

The Nuns, the Masterpiece, and a Remote Canadian Island

On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen goes on a quest to visit one of the world’s great sculptures

Mckenna Grace

The 19-year-old actress is making her romance debut as the lead in Regretting You, the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation, starring Allison Williams and Dave Franco

Bach in Motion

In Copenhagen, the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky reimagines The Art of Fugue as a ballet, transforming Bach’s esteemed final score into an abstract work in five acts

Sam Shepard and the Blue Star Kachina

Inside the making of Operation Sidewinder, the playwright’s first and only drama to premiere on Broadway

Magma

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again!

With Halloween around the corner, music photographer Mick Rock’s behind-the-scenes images from the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show offer a rare glimpse into the making of Richard O’Brien’s campy cult classic

Found in Translation

The French may never forgive Richard Linklater for having made the best film of the nouvelle vague, on the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless

Updike Redux

Virginia Giuffre’s Last Words

An explosive account of alleged abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew is seeing the light of day six months after Giuffre’s suicide

The Making of Bruce Lee

A new book traces the actor’s journey from Hong Kong to Hollywood—and reveals how his career redefined Asian representation on-screen

Iris van Herpen’s Guide to Amsterdam

The Dutch fashion designer shares her go-to spots in the city she calls home

A Portrait of the Id as an Old Man

The relationship between Kate Moss and Lucian Freud was filled with a charged intimacy—but a new film on the two lacks spark

The Beatnik and the Mobster

How did an unpublished story by Jack Kerouac end up in the possession of Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano?

Stand-up Guy

Will Arnett plays a recently divorced comic in a bittersweet film directed by Bradley Cooper and co-starring Laura Dern

John Cuneo’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Morten Morland’s Sketchbook

Becoming Richard Burton

Matthew Rhys returns to his native Wales to inhabit the baritone Shakespearean actor—and fellow countryman—in a one-man play