Playing with Fyre The bizarre, ongoing story of Billy McFarland, the mastermind behind the music-festival fiasco who started a podcast behind bars
Neon Dion The Bronx’s doo-wop prince is also a soulful rock ’n’ roller whose catalogue is as deep as it is vast
Bon Voyage! A new book collects the best of airport style, from an impossibly bouncy-haired Dolly Parton to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin
Has Hunter Biden Written the Season’s Best Book? It’s up for debate—as is the best way to drop the lockdown weight, and what exactly makes someone the new It Girl
The Sex Queen of Paris Madame Claude schooled high-priced prostitutes for clients such as J.F.K. and Onassis. Now she gets the Netflix treatment
Opera Pick of the Week Munich’s Bavarian State Opera streams Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, starring American mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey
April 9, 2021
Collecting Intelligence The author and friend of John le Carré’s, whose radio tribute to the espionage writer is out now, traces the arc of le Carré through his most memorable books
April 7, 2021
Splendor in the Grass The story of how Central Park and its beating heart, the bucolic Sheep Meadow, came to be
April 7, 2021
Notes from Underground Harriet Tubman left behind no written history of her life, but her stories—of the Underground Railroad and the allies she made along the way—live on
April 7, 2021
Revisionist History Churchill gets a bad rap for the 1943 Tehran conference, where Roosevelt and Stalin won out. Looking back, the Old Lion might have been right all along
April 7, 2021
Demián Bichir The Mexican actor’s roles have ranged from Fidel Castro to one of Tarantino’s “Hateful Eight.” A trio of new films cements him as a master of variety
Dial M for Mail If Alfred Hitchcock contained multitudes, his films contained infinitudes in the eyes of his viewers, who wrote him too many letters to count
Border Crossing Alejandro Iñárritu, the Mexican filmmaker behind the Academy Award–winning Birdman and The Revenant, is bringing the immigrant experience to V.R.
Dogs—They’re Just Like Us! Before quarantine puppies, there were Magnum dogs, photogenic canines immortalized alongside their owners by Philippe Halsman, Inge Morath, and others
Are You Savvier than a 16-Year-Old? More than five million fans follow Sissy Sheridan. What does she know that you don’t? Plus: the great Lego caper, and more
Curtain Going Up! (Please?) Veteran British theater producer Sonia Friedman reveals what a post-pandemic West End will look like
