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
Stable Genius
A séjour in Deauville leads master photographer Larry Fink to explore his horsey side
College Tour 2019
A road trip with R.E.M., Kanye, Django Reinhardt, Post Malone, Joe Turner, and more …
Anthony Horowitz
On the most intriguing—and enduring—fiction
Naval Gazing
On October 29, Bonhams, in London, will offer a major Marine Sale
Deborah Berke
On the books that unite literature and architecture
Dancing in the Air
Chic, the Temptations, Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, the Trammps, the Pointer Sisters again … and more
“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
Once More unto the Breach
In Henry V, Timothée Chalamet tries to fill the sabbatons of Olivier and Branagh
Gold Diggers
Sebastião Salgado’s photographs capture the hope, despair, and human suffering in a Brazilian mine
Downton Abbey: The Five-Minute Version
Condensed, with perhaps one or two liberties taken. Still, the reading time is 118 minutes less than the film’s running time
The Last Queen of France
Marie Antoinette’s biographer on her secret plot to stop the Revolution, and what history got wrong about the monarch
They Publish the Perished
Thanks to New York Review Books Classics, masterpieces such as Stoner, Speedboat, and Poison Penmanship are back in print and finding new fans
