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
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
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
Jamie Lee Curtis
Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions
The Stone Age
The artisan who taught the artist the secrets that led to the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Japan
M.I.5’s Storyteller
Eric Roberts’s biographer unearths a short story written by the W.W. II spy
Here’s to You, Mr. Nichols
Graydon Carter toasts Ash Carter and Sam Kashner at Monkey Bar to celebrate their new oral biography of Mike Nichols
Bowie’s Top 100
Before he died, David Bowie published a list of books that changed his life. A new volume parses through all 100 titles, including a little-remembered 1842 novel
The Polanski Affair
Will American audiences ever see An Officer and a Spy after the exiled director likened his rape case to the anti-Semitic false charges leveled against Alfred Dreyfus?
Inside Prison 1600
An exclusive excerpt from Melania Trump’s (completely unverified) private diary
Deconstructing Ralph Lauren
A new documentary explores the life and legacy of the man behind the mega-brand
Soul Sisters
As an exhibition on the work of black artists hits San Francisco, the academic reflects on the show’s centerpiece: a portrait of the ex–Black Panther she shares a name with
