The Island of Jared Kushner
On this week’s podcast, a look at the latest hustle from Trump’s son-in-law: a luxury resort with poisonous snakes
Fashion Forward
An exhibition in Paris celebrates Paul Poiret, the early-20th-century couturier who freed women from corsets and inspired designers from Christian Dior to John Galliano
Atsuko Okatsuka
In her new special, Father, the Japanese-Taiwanese comedian finds the humor in her unorthodox upbringing
A Match Made in Hell
Suicides, Nazi-esque orgies, and a classic P. G. Wodehouse character: the radioactive legacy of British Fascist Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford
A Dutchman in Dublin
Gung-ho Wagner from the Irish National Opera
Shark Tales
In time for the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a new book reveals how Robert Shaw’s haunting monologue came to be
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a transfixing chronicle of the nuclear age, a look back at Cambridge’s queer history, and a portrait of everyday life in war-torn Ukraine
Alexandre de Betak’s Guide to Paris
The fashion show producer shares his favorite design shops in his hometown
Summer of Cézanne
In Aix-en-Provence, a wave of exhibitions pays tribute to the French painter
My Best Friendship with Kate Spade
The designer’s co-founder reveals how a broke student from Kansas named Katy Brosnahan became handbag maven “Kate Spade”
Health Scare
Popular theories on why R.F.K. Jr. fired the entire C.D.C. vaccine advisory panel
Bessie Carter
The daughter of Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter lands the lead role in the new Mitford-sisters series, Outrageous
A Photo Finish
Forty-five years after The Shining’s release, a reporter and an academic doggedly tracked down the original version of the eerie photograph that Kubrick chose to close the film with
Portrait of a Country on Fire
A new book of photographs by Mitch Epstein captures the devastating impact of industry on the American landscape—and the fragile pockets of nature that remain
Parade’s End
Trump’s birthday wish list has a lot more on it than just a Soviet-style military procession
The Great James Bond Renaissance
While the next 007 film languishes in Amazon purgatory, a new wave of book spin-offs are re-inventing the British spy for the next generation
Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding
On this week’s podcast, Stuart Heritage reports on what to expect at the bridezilla-iest wedding ever
Lisa’s Mystery Picks
This week, don’t miss an Agatha Christie–meets–P. G. Wodehouse murder mystery, a police procedural by the creator of Broadchurch, and a whodunit set in a Maine retiree town
Blanca Miró Scrimieri’s Guide to Barcelona
The Spanish fashion designer and co-founder of La Veste shares her favorite spots in her hometown
White Knight In the Trauma Center
From Paris, Kirill Serebrennikov’s off-the-rails Lohengrin
