Baby Reindeer Games
The hit Netflix show about stalking has bled into real life as social-media sleuths hound—and threaten—the actual people the story is based on
Noem Chompski
Other potential Trump vice-presidential picks now that Kristi Noem has shot herself in the foot
The Fall of the House of Astor (Revisited)
A posthumous memoir from the son of New York society’s departed queen offers a self-serving perspective on an infamous scandal
Inside the Crime That Scandalized New York’s Bluebloods
On this week’s podcast, Michael Gross takes a new look at the conviction of Brooke Astor’s son for stealing millions from her
The Secret Life of Jimmy Nelson
A new book collects the former advertising executive turned intrepid photographer’s shots of Indigenous peoples from Siberia to Nepal to Kenya
Who’s Afraid of the Internet Novel?
The latest wave of fictions attempting to capture life online is more damaged and dissociative than ever before
Taking Orders
Nothing prepared a Hacks co-creator for Hollywood quite like working as a waitress
Paul, John, George, Ringo, and Me
My movie Let It Be chronicled the Beatles’ last concert—and got lost in the wake of their breakup. Now it’s returning to screens
Lunch with Jeff Goldblum
The actor and jazz musician extols the virtues of having a life outside of Hollywood and praises good luck on this week’s episode of Table for Two
A Ballet with a Twist
Cathy Marston premieres Atonement, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel and her first creation as the new director of Ballett Zürich
Eurovision Gets Serious
For decades, the international pop contest was a source of harmless fun for millions. This year, people are bracing for violence
The Wife That History Forgot
A new discovery sheds fresh light on Alice Hathaway Lee, Theodore Roosevelt’s first love, who was largely written off as inconsequential in the president’s life
Fifty Shades of Romantasy
How a genre fusing romance and fantasy—replete with kinky elves—took over best-seller lists and women’s nightstands everywhere
The Gulag of Bernarda Alba
From London’s National Theatre, Lorca’s blistering tragedy of woman’s inhumanity to woman
Warning Signs
Publicly, Winthrop Bell was known as a standout Harvard professor. Secretly, the British spy was the first to raise the alarm about World War II
Director’s Cut
In the 1970s, Stanley Kubrick fought to block the publication of The Magic Eye, a book lightly critical of his films. Now, it’s finally getting published
Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s Guide to Mumbai
The couturier to Bollywood royalty shares his favorite restaurants, hotels, shops, and other go-to’s in the city
Photography’s Années Folles
George Hoyningen-Huene’s portraits of everyone from Josephine Baker to Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, and Frank Capra—collected in a new book—evoke the style and glamour of the 20th century
To Catch (and Release?) a Killer
On this week’s podcast, Howard Blum reveals why the case against the alleged University of Idaho murderer looks shockingly thin
Pitch-Perfect
In an interview, the breakout tenor Jonathan Tetelman chronicles his road from D.J.-ing to starring in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Met
Lucca Hue-Williams
The 26-year-old gallerist behind Albion Jeune is bringing fresh perspectives to London’s art scene
