For a Good Time in Paris, Call Her
“Madame Claude” supplied high-end prostitutes to J.F.K., the Shah of Iran, Frank Sinatra, and others. Was she a feminist icon or a thug?
A Smooth Blend
In this week’s podcast, the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten, brings Ashley and Mike some comforting (and tasty) ideas
Arlo Parks
The London-based singer-songwriter captures the agony and ecstasy of Gen Z
Dark Words
Why did Eleanor Roosevelt stand by the offensive term she used in her long-celebrated autobiography?
Bloomsbury’s Naked Truth
Famed artist Duncan Grant’s “lost” trove of erotic drawings discovered under bed
Bruce Wagner’s Woke Universe
After his publisher balked at his use of a certain word, Hollywood’s master of satire posts his new novel online for free
Hollywood Heartbreak
In which the star of My Best Friend’s Wedding forgets a dinner with Joan Collins and loses a “giant” role, all while trying to revive his career
Magic Man
The American photographer Rodney Smith saw the world through black-and-white-colored glasses
Seeing Things
Seamus Heaney’s biographer looks at what makes a poet essential
Sex and the Ambitious Girl
Imagining what goes on in the mind of rich-husband collector Barbara Amiel
Rupert Everett Can’t Help Himself
The devastating male beauty of 80s and 90s cinema, the star of Another Country, Dance with a Stranger, and My Best Friend’s Wedding, plays a porno villain in the new British series Adult Material
Charlotte Hope
The Game of Thrones actress on the difficulty of moving on from playing Henry VIII’s first wife
Killing Jason Bourne: Stoppard’s Secret Movie Scripts … Revealed!
Britain’s most esteemed playwright quietly contributed to the scripts for Star Wars, Schindler’s List, The Bourne Ultimatum, My Mom’s a Werewolf, and 102 Dalmatians, among others
Anarchists in the Kitchen?
What if The Great British Bake Off were an Antifa sleeper cell?
80 Degrees North
A dazzling Arctic archipelago home to walruses and polar bears is at the mercy of our warming planet
This Land Is Your Land
Finding it difficult to recognize America? This collection of songs will remind you what the country’s all about
The Idiot Box
Keeping Up with the Sussexes—a first look at Meghan and Harry’s Netflix reality-show script
Collins on the Rocks
American expats are fuming over Emily in Paris, Darren Star’s absurd new Netflix series
