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Lunch with Emma Roberts

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the actress tucks in with host Bruce Bozzi and discusses the importance of movies that feel nostalgic, the dangerous pull of social media, and more …

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series

Bad Connection

An open challenge to the puzzle editors at The New York Times

Adolf Hitler and the Holy Grail

On this week’s podcast, Adam Hay-Nicholls shares the incredible story about Nazis, a postwoman, and M.I.6

Demimonde Dreaming

Down and Out in 90s America

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a murder mystery set in Maine; a history of colonial Britain told through walking routes; and a look at Paris’s Belle Époque

Posing a Challenger

In the lead-up to the 1986 Challenger explosion, an engineer raised the alarm about safety concerns. His inability to stop the disaster upended his life

A Great Deal More Night Music

Stephen Sondheim’s orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick, doubles his score in the world premiere of a re-arranged A Little Night Music at New York’s Lincoln Center

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Publicity for the Devil

Lucian Freud’s “Slave”

David Dawson was the artist’s fixer, confidant, and gofer—and he still lives in his master’s house

Who Is the Real Rebecca Minkoff?

Accused of hypocrisy and workplace hostility, the fashion designer—and devout Scientologist—has gone from #Girlboss to horrible boss to Real Housewife

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Secret Source

While the Mitchell Algus Gallery has launched the careers of many current art-world sensations, Algus himself struggles to pay the rent

Midnight in Toronto

Fifty years ago, Mikhail Baryshnikov, a star of the U.S.S.R.’s Kirov Ballet, defected from his troupe after a performance in Canada. Dance was never the same

The Most Expensive Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Sanyu befriended Picasso and Giacometti yet died destitute. Today, he’s known as the “Chinese Matisse”

The Lady Gangster of New York

Vivian Gordon made a name for herself as the sexual extortionist of Jazz Age New York. Then she disappeared

The Bikeriders Diaries

Director Jeff Nichols reveals how his new film, based on Danny Lyon’s seminal 1968 photo series of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, came to be

Is Wall Street Funding a Fourth Reich?

On this week’s podcast, Alessandra Stanley discusses Trump, tech and finance bros, and their newfound love for Trump

Jodie Comer

Fresh off her starring role in the West End and Broadway hit Prima Facie, the actress stars opposite Austin Butler in The Bikeriders

Reality Bites

The Tortured-Writers Department

Sitting in the cafés frequented by Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway to write a book about Paris sounds like a dream—until it’s time to put pen to paper

Miles Greenberg’s Guide to Montreal

The Canadian artist shares the spots that shaped his adolescence as an art-school dropout