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Book of Judith

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Sketchbook

The AIR MAIL Survey

A quiz on the most important issues of the day …

The Oral History of a Summer Classic

Thirty years on, the cast and crew of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Britain’s most successful—and delightfully profane—romantic comedy ever, look back on the highs and lows

One-Frame Films

Set photographer Alfonso Avincola captured some of the 20th century’s greatest actors, from the divas of Italian neo-realism to the Young Turks of New Hollywood

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Most Wanted Man

Was M.I.6 agent Dick Ellis one of the worst traitors of the 20th century—or an unsung hero who first sounded the alarm on Pearl Harbor?

Lunch with Ellen Barkin

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Bronx-born actress recounts an unfortunate on-set merkin incident, waiting tables for the likes of Terrence Malick, and other adventures in Hollywood …

The Saltwater King

When it comes to learning the art of fly-fishing for striped bass, New York’s editors, writers, and chefs all turn to the same puckish guide and former reality-TV star

From Jet-Set Playboy to Secret Papa

On this week’s podcast, the incredible story of Mario D’Urso and his American love child

Riding Solo

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

In Basel, Anne Sofie von Otter dismantles Schubert’s Winterreise, to transformative effect

The Renegade’s Tale

In an interview, Margaret Atwood discusses everything from Donald Trump to her newest story, “Cut & Thirst”

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss the story of a family fight over inheritance, a history of the White House Situation Room, and a biography of the great sportswriter Grant Wahl

Dafydd Jones’s Guide to New York City

The British photographer who captured Manhattan’s high society in the 80s and 90s shares his favorite—and most nostalgic—New York spots

Life and Death

The Fame Game

Station Havens

A new book offers a dazzling tour of 20th- and 21st-century railway architecture, from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof to Chengdu’s Line 9

O.K., Groomer

A reporter’s dispatch from the trenches of the gender-and-sexuality wars in schools across the U.S. portends a perilous future for L.G.B.T.Q. teens

Sex and the A.I. Girl

On this week’s podcast, Flora Gill reveals why so many people are having affairs with digital companions

The Afterlife of the Bauhaus

An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism

Honor Levy

With My First Book, the very online It Girl is defining Gen Z fiction

Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook

Soaringly Sozzled Onstage

Withnail and I is one of the most beloved—and bibulous—British films of all time. But can this bucolic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas be properly adapted into a play?