Rodney Everlasting
With the magic of Wes Anderson, the imagination of René Magritte, and the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, Rodney Smith’s photographs—collected in a new coffee-table book—create a fantastical world untouched by time
100 Years of Martha Graham
Amidst its centennial tour, the Martha Graham Dance Company channels its legacy of resistance and protest with a new piece from the choreographer Hope Boykin, set to a reimagined Leonard Bernstein score
Daddy Issues
To the outside world, my father was a gifted and accomplished author. To his family, he was a self-destructive and deeply flawed man
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part IV
Norman Mailer snubbed Lawrence Schiller when accepting the Pulitzer Prize for The Executioner’s Song. But that didn’t stop Schiller from cutting Mailer in on his latest exclusive: Lee Harvey Oswald’s K.G.B. files
Marcus Samuelsson and Andrew Chapman’s Guide to Harlem
The duo behind Red Rooster share their go-to restaurants in the New York neighborhood
Zen and the Art of JB Blunk
Inspired by the American sculptor, lifelong Buddhist, and master of handmade objects, an exhibition in California showcases candleholders created by more than 100 international artists and designers
The Cult of Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Norwegian writer inspires a reverence bordering on worship among his mostly male fans. He can bring grown men to tears with a single sentence
Gerran Howell
With roles alongside George Clooney and Benedict Cumberbatch under his belt, and a growing spate of online fangirls, the Welsh actor returns to The Pitt as a first-year medical resident
The Cellblock A-List
You never know who you’ll meet in prison! Nicolás Maduro has just been admitted to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, a jail so historically filled with the famous it practically has a velvet rope outside it
The Last Movie Star
Leonardo DiCaprio and the director Paul Thomas Anderson discuss their Oscar-tipped hit, One Battle After Another, the future of cinema—and whether Jack really had to die in Titanic
Gone with the Winds
How an unexpected shift in the weather brought news of the Chernobyl disaster to the West—and marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union
Soledad Twombly’s Guide to Buenos Aires
The fashion designer behind Rome’s beloved L’Archivio di Monserrato shares her go-to spots in her hometown
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part III
Norman Mailer swore he’d never work with Lawrence Schiller again. But financial need changed his mind—and literary history
Pretty Privilege for Sale
GLP-1s are making it possible to rig the genetic lottery. What happens to the people who can’t afford them?
Promising Young Women
Jean Seberg, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Agnès Varda … a coffee-table book pays tribute to the women of the French New Wave
Let There Be Light
For more than a century, month-long exhibitions of J. M. W. Turner’s Romantic watercolors have chased away the January blues in Dublin and Edinburgh
