Fifty Shades of Downing Street
A British aide who worked with Dominic Cummings on the Brexit campaign is writing an erotic novel based on her time in politics
Flying Lessons
The author of a new book on Virgin Galactic didn’t have to look far for inspiration—like Virgin’s lead test pilot, his dad was a fighter pilot and Top Gun grad
We’re Crashing at Clooney’s
Where do you want to go, now that Europe is welcoming vaxxed Americans?
Afternoon of a Fawn
An audio play re-creates what went down when Dame Edith Sitwell met Marilyn Monroe
Déjà Voodoo
Reggae covers of non-reggae songs that will make you think twice, from John Holt, Peter Tosh, Marcia Griffiths, Alton Ellis, and more
Where the Magic Happens
Beatrice Monti della Corte has been welcoming writers to her villa in Tuscany for what feels like forever. Ralph Fiennes and Edmund White recount the extraordinary experience of being there
Opera Pick of the Week
The Los Angeles Opera mounts a rare revival of Joseph Bologne’s L’Amant Anonyme with a cast from its young-artists program
Bourgeois Fever
A long career. A merciless eye. Implacable life force. In museums and galleries, Louise Bourgeois is the queen to Picasso’s king
Where Art and Architecture Meet
An interview with the Italian designer Vincenzo de Cotiis, whose savagely sleek work fuses art and architecture with interior design
Heroes and Villains
What happens when you discover your heroine was a vile anti-Semite?
The Turing Enigma
Nearly 70 years after being prosecuted for homosexuality, Alan Turing is joining the Queen on Britain’s £50 note. His nephew warns that the code breaker wouldn’t have wanted to be seen as a victim
When the Little Tramp Returned to America
In 1972, 20 years after Charlie Chaplin was forced into exile, the man who helped invent Hollywood came to a garden party in Los Angeles. Everyone was there
What if … the Queen Enters the Dating Scene?
Single and ready to mingle
You Heard It Here First
The voice recordings of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton offer a window into two of 20th-century literature’s fieriest spirits
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Anjelica Huston sculpts her next act
