Celine Song
A stint as a matchmaker inspired the Past Lives director’s latest film, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans
Hollywood’s Reckoning
After five years of hardship, from the pandemic to the writers’ strike to the wildfires, Los Angeles is no longer the movie hub it once was. Can it come back?
Big Stick Energy
Owen Wilson’s new Apple TV+ golf sitcom might be the new Ted Lasso
Louis Tunes
A new monograph collects the eccentric, avant-garde illustrations of Louis M. Glackens, the satirical cartoonist and longtime staff artist at Puck
Inside Jared Leto’s Sex Scandal
On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino discusses her report on the women who have accused the actor of grooming
Band of Brothers
How the Gallagher siblings broke up Oasis five minutes before going onstage in front of 40,000 people
Dark Horses
Inside the murky world of doping in Thoroughbred horse racing
The Book of Earthly Delights
Just outside Paris, a new exhibition displays the luminous pages of an illustrated prayer book commissioned in the 15th century by Jean, the Duke of Berry
The Real Jay Gatsby
Did F. Scott Fitzgerald model his titular character after his real-life Princeton school-mate?
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a new edition of John Gregory Dunne’s quasi-divorce memoir, an investigation into a Manhattan-art-gallery scandal, and a short-story collection capturing life in northern China
Albert Einstein’s Eureka! Moment
How a spiritual tradition with origins in ancient Greece influenced the Nobel Prize–winning physicist—and shaped the greatest scientific achievements of the millennium
Christine Sun Kim’s Guide to Berlin
The American artist shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Making a Scene
In Slauson Rec, a new behind-the-scenes documentary, Shia LaBeouf builds a theater company—then torches it with tantrums, tirades, and flying chairs
Front Lines
In his illustrations of war, the British artist George Butler adds color to the oft overlooked human experiences behind global conflicts
Dog Days
With an essay by P. G. Wodehouse, a newly reissued coffee-table book collects 820 photographs of Elliott Erwitt’s most unexpected muse
Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch
A Bonfire of the Vanities for our times, and a family drama that follows a wealthy patriarch’s sudden death
I Love Lucy’s Other Half
Raised as a prince in pre-Guevara Cuba, Desi Arnaz fled to America and revolutionized TV with Lucille Ball—but he couldn’t escape the trauma of his youth
The Making of The Thick of It: Part II
The creators and cast reflect on the Britcom’s stickiest moments—including a scandal that nearly derailed the whole thing—and the show’s legacy today
Forget Roy Cohn. William F. Buckley Jr. Is the True Dark Knight of the Right
On this week’s podcast, Sam Tanenhaus reveals how the writer set the agenda for Trump’s presidency
