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Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Sketchbook

One-Frame Films

Set photographer Alfonso Avincola captured some of the 20th century’s greatest actors, from the divas of Italian neo-realism to the Young Turks of New Hollywood

The AIR MAIL Survey

A quiz on the most important issues of the day …

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

In Basel, Anne Sofie von Otter dismantles Schubert’s Winterreise, to transformative effect

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss the story of a family fight over inheritance, a history of the White House Situation Room, and a biography of the great sportswriter Grant Wahl

The Renegade’s Tale

In an interview, Margaret Atwood discusses everything from Donald Trump to her newest story, “Cut & Thirst”

Dafydd Jones’s Guide to New York City

The British photographer who captured Manhattan’s high society in the 80s and 90s shares his favorite—and most nostalgic—New York spots

Station Havens

A new book offers a dazzling tour of 20th- and 21st-century railway architecture, from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof to Chengdu’s Line 9

Single-Mother’s Day

World War II left my mother a widow. But I didn’t have to go looking for a father figure. I had Irma

Oedipus Flex

Elizabeth Hurley’s erotic thriller—written and directed by her 22-year-old son—is one for the Freudians

Life and Death

The Fame Game

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mystery books range from a thriller spelling out the origins of Fascism in England to a literary whodunit reminiscent of The Thursday Murder Club

Last House on the Trad Right

William F. Buckley Jr. learned his brand of conservative radicalism at his family’s sprawling Connecticut home, now up for sale

O.K., Groomer

A reporter’s dispatch from the trenches of the gender-and-sexuality wars in schools across the U.S. portends a perilous future for L.G.B.T.Q. teens

Sex and the A.I. Girl

On this week’s podcast, Flora Gill reveals why so many people are having affairs with digital companions

The Afterlife of the Bauhaus

An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism

Honor Levy

With My First Book, the very online It Girl is defining Gen Z fiction

Soaringly Sozzled Onstage

Withnail and I is one of the most beloved—and bibulous—British films of all time. But can this bucolic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas be properly adapted into a play?

Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

There Will Be Bloods

How the pioneering American dynasty both witnessed and shaped the creation of the United States

Iké Udé’s Guide to Lagos

From beach clubs to hidden art hubs, the Nigerian-American photographer and performer shares his go-to’s in his native city

Morphine, Booze, and Roaring

Brian Cox, Succession’s raging paterfamilias, takes on a Eugene O’Neill classic alongside a dazzling Patricia Clarkson