“We’d Just Never Seen Anything Like It”
In the summer of 1976, the Sex Pistols played two sparsely attended shows in Manchester. Among the few who did turn up were future members of Buzzcocks, the Fall, the Smiths, and Joy Division
Bigger, Better, Starrier
Twelve years after its brief run on Broadway, Sting brings The Last Ship, his autobiographical passion project, to the Metropolitan Opera House
Joe Anders
The 22-year-old son of Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes is carving out a film career on his own terms, with a Netflix screenplay under his belt and a new role alongside Amy Adams and Javier Bardem
The Soul Singer from North London
With songs like “Father Figure” and “Careless Whisper,” George Michael became the first white solo artist to lead the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart—re-drawing the boundaries of the genre forever
Slouching Towards Istanbul
What a decade in Erdoğan’s authoritarian Turkey taught me about the long, bloody shadow of America’s foreign wars
Luis Laplace’s Guide to Minorca
The Argentinean architect shares his go-to spots on the Spanish island
The Eternal Child
A new documentary sheds fresh light on Louis Malle, the nouvelle vague contemporary whose films tackled complicated subjects with innocence and curiosity
The Hardest Day’s Night
With photographs by Jim Marshall, a new coffee-table book revisits the charged, melancholy night the Beatles played the last concert of their final tour
Michele di Robilant
The son of the art dealer Edmondo di Robilant spent years forging his own path through the art world. Now, at 30, he’s helping steer the newly independent Robilant gallery into a new era
The Unstoppable Jasper Johns
A retrospective in Bilbao, Spain, collects decades of work by the last great living survivor of the postwar generation
Woman of Mystery
Marilyn Monroe continues to fascinate us a century on, because we’re still trying to figure her out
The Royal Treatment
From The Crown to Love Story, Hollywood’s enduring fascination with the Windsors and the Kennedys has cemented their mythos for the next generation—but at what cost?
In Contempt of Court
A.I. models incorrectly predict that most Supreme Court cases will be decided along party lines. The real culprit isn’t the algorithm—it’s us
Nikki Hill and Claire Wadsworth’s Guide to Joshua Tree
The life and business partners behind the restaurant La Copine share their go-to spots in the High Desert
Requiem for a Dreamscape
A retrospective in Germany honors Verner Panton, the Danish designer who transformed the spirit of American counterculture into psychedelic interiors blending color, sensuality, and fun
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mysteries: James Comey’s new espionage thriller and the latest installment in Anthony Horowitz’s meta-mystery series
The Duke Hunter
Andrew Lownie’s biography of the Yorks helped bring down the former Prince Andrew. With new allegations in the forthcoming U.S. paperback, the scourge of the royals is still in hot pursuit
Fire Island Time
A new coffee-table book looks beyond the island’s reputation as a queer summer utopia, revealing it, for the first time, as a creative hub that influenced artists from Richard Avedon to Wolfgang Tillmans
