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Genius Loves Company

The author of the first account of Einstein’s British entanglement unveils the physicist’s unlikely
English-countryside hosts

Under the Skin

Don’t Pass Him By

The ever cheerful Ringo Starr has a new album—improbably titled What’s My Name—and a lot to say about drumming, photography, and that band …

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

For Old Times’ Sake

A slew of new exhibitions puts the spotlight on ancient times, from King Tut to Pompeii

Screen Time

Deer Dear Prec President
Erto
Erdogon …

Stable Genius

A séjour in Deauville leads master photographer Larry Fink to explore his horsey side

Naval Gazing

On October 29, Bonhams, in London, will offer a major Marine Sale

John Le Carré is dead at 89. Here, a review of his last book

College Tour 2019

A road trip with R.E.M., Kanye, Django Reinhardt, Post Malone, Joe Turner, and more …

Working Women

Now You See It

Joni’s Blue Period

Anthony Horowitz

On the most intriguing—and enduring—fiction

Short List

Once upon a Time in China

First Light

There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame

Helen Mirren brings something special to every performance. But for HBO’s Catherine the Great, she also draws on her own White Russian roots

MoMA Mia⁠—a New Museum!

Following a familiar script, the Museum of Modern Art has re-invented itself yet again. But first it had to be invented

Bruce McCall’s Sketchbook

Soho on Camera

Once More unto the Breach

In Henry V, Timothée Chalamet tries to fill the sabbatons of Olivier and Branagh

“I Go Nowhere, See No One”

Greta Garbo’s letters, now up for auction, make public a rare glimpse of the star who loved solitude