Come On in My Kitchen
Music to cook by, from Domenico Modugno, Roberta Flack, Fleetwood Mac, Dolly Parton, the Temptations, Renato Carosone, and more
Jackie’s Russian Collusion
A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev was among the last she’d send from the White House
Behind The Crown
The inside story of how the show’s creator, Peter Morgan, mixes facts with dramatic inventiveness
Food for Thought
This Land is Their Land offers a true account of the First Thanksgiving. Its author illustrates the violent history behind today’s myth
Jesse Eisenberg
Recommends four contemporary plays
EPISODE I: “Slattern-on-the-Hudson”
Recent correspondence from Lansy Everett, formerly of the New York Herald Tribune, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Mademoiselle, Vogue, Worth, and Harper’s Bazaar
Out of Office
A new look at Andrew Johnson’s impeachment reveals the buried truth behind the long-forgotten trial, and the eerie parallels to today’s proceedings
Rootless Metropolitan
A foreign correspondent retraces E. B. White’s 1949 love letter to the city he left, Here Is New York
Jamie Lee Curtis
Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions
M.I.5’s Storyteller
Eric Roberts’s biographer unearths a short story written by the W.W. II spy
Nouvelle Vague
The French New Wave film posters quickly became as groundbreaking as the 50s and 60s films themselves. A new book highlights the designers behind the movement’s explosive aesthetic
Harry Wootliff
“It’s really refreshing when someone is interested in what’s going on in your brain”—the British TV-and-film director on her road toward making movies
The Stone Age
The artisan who taught the artist the secrets that led to the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Japan