Inside “the Playpen”
Booze, jet packs, “Join, or Die” flags, and the occasional severed limb: welcome to Chicago’s most controversial party spot
Face Time
From Whitney Houston to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Louise Bourgeois to Kate Moss, a new coffee-table book collects a lifetime of portraits by the photographer Bruce Weber
Grandmother Courage
The little-known story of the Argentinean women who fought to reclaim their stolen grandchildren—and helped topple a dictatorship
When Gen Z Discovered Dubya
On this week’s podcast, Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz explain why Gen Z thinks George W. Bush is so cool
Both Sides Now
Meet Harriet Walter, master-mistress of Shakespearean voices, now onstage in Bath
Fifty Shades of Heathcliff
Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights—where Victorian British yearning meets Down Under B.D.S.M.—has the literary set clutching their pearls
The Sway of Peter Sellers
Woody Allen, Christopher Guest, and Geoffrey Rush recall the influence of the great comic actor, who was born 100 years ago
She Come Groovin’ Up Slowly
How Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the wife of the infamous psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary, sparked one of the Beatles’ greatest hits
Rosa Esteva’s Guide to Majorca
The fashion designer and founder of Cortana shares her favorite spots on the island she calls home
Back from the Dead
Jim Marshall’s Grateful Dead photos, capturing the calm and chaos of the 1960s rock ’n’ roll scene, are collected in a new coffee-table book
Love in the Time of Content Creators
On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David tells us how Gen Z has taken all the fun out of wedding proposals
Wet Hot American Summer
The backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol. And this summer, it’s more fetishized than ever
A Match Made in Dance Heaven
For the first time, Manhattan’s Joyce Theater organizes its Ballet Festival around a single choreographer, Jerome Robbins, in a program curated by Tiler Peck, a principal dancer at New York City Ballet
Corey Mylchreest
With starring roles in the romantic comedy My Oxford Year and the Julie Delpy–led political thriller, Hostage, the 27-year-old actor is spearheading the revival of Cool Britannia
A Pragmatic Progressive’s Lament
Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of the Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on free speech, protests, and liberalism
The Bureau of Unbelievable Statistics
Who better to be Trump’s data czar than the disgraced former congressman George Santos?
The Price of Being a Kennedy
The show-runner and producer of a new documentary series ask, Why is the world still obsessed with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy?
Hex and the City
Jonathan Mahler reveals how the late 1980s in the city foreshadowed this year’s mayoral race—and the Trump presidency
That’s Entertainment!
At the Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger without tears
