Rocky Road
The Pan-American Highway was going to connect Alaska to Argentina, but it couldn’t surmount the Darién Gap. Now it’s migrants, not motorists, making the crossing
The Man Who Made the Beatles
Under Brian Epstein’s guidance, the Beatles traded dodgy Liverpool clubs for the world’s greatest stages. But the manager’s private life was a far more tragic tale
At 150, the Bayreuth Festival Welcomes AI—and a White Elephant
Katherina Wagner gives great-grandad Richard’s legacy another makeover
The Art of War
A new book collects Lee Miller’s photographs of the Blitz, a time when the American, with no permit to work yet still holding a tourist visa, turned her camera to a Britain under fire
A Complicated Man
Why does The Odyssey still resonate? Because, at its core, it is the story of a warrior’s struggle to re-enter civilian life
The Cost of Custer’s Last Stand
A new book reveals the breathtaking toll of the bloody 1876 battle between the U.S. military and the Sioux-Cheyenne coalition, which devastated families on both sides
Gaslit, Gatekept Girlbosses
The biographer of cosmetics titan Mary Kay reveals how the other female inventors and entrepreneurs of her time were foiled and forgotten
Carlota Guerrero’s Guide to Barcelona
The Spanish photographer shares her go-to spots in the city she calls home
The Sport of All Sports
“A game of the people, by the people”: as the World Cup comes to a close, a coffee-table book—and a devoted fan—pays tribute to the elegance and grandeur of soccer
The Eternal Ana Mendieta
Four decades after her contentious death, the pioneer of body and land art—known for dissolving the boundaries between herself, nature, and the spirit world—is celebrated with a retrospective in London
Nicola Lees’s Guide to Aspen
The C.E.O. and artistic director of the Aspen Art Museum shares her go-to spots in the Colorado city
The Poet’s Premiums
Wallace Stevens was a successful insurance executive by day and a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet by night—but his letters reveal he had existential doubts about the trade-off
The Pleasure Gardens of London
Forget the candlelit ballrooms of Jane Austen novels—partying in 18th-century London meant water taxis, drunken aristocrats, and enough pyrotechnics to level Pompeii
Pulp It Up
Fresh off last summer’s chart-topping More—their first release in two decades—a newly re-united Pulp, the Brit-pop heroes behind “Common People,” return to London to perform the album in its entirety for the first time
Bubba Weiler
His debut play made it Off Broadway; now, for his second act, the emerging star of New York’s downtown theater scene is reaching back to his small-town Catholic roots
Some Like It Sleek
Clean lines, open plans, boxy silhouettes … a new coffee-table book traces how the eastern tip of Long Island became the proving ground for American modernism
