Signed, Sealed, Delivered
A new book of Edward Gorey’s letters offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the mind of one of America’s greatest illustrators
La Duce Vita
A new TV series on the Fascist dictator asks: Why do Italians still defend Benito Mussolini?
Chekhov In Flashes
From London, Andrew Scott’s Off Broadway-bound Vanya
A Real-Life Mrs. Maisel
A meticulously kept scrapbook sheds light on the little-remembered life of Jean Carroll, America’s first Jewish woman stand-up comedian
Rolf Sachs’s Guide to Saint-Moritz
The artist and designer shares his favorite spots in the mountain town
Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer
Why Audrey Hepburn’s granddaughter forewent a career in the spotlight to pursue painting
The Grand Illusionist
From debutantes to lumberjacks, pop artists to stockbrokers, matinee idols to praying mantises, a new coffee-table book surveys Larry Fink’s wide-ranging, unconventional black-and-white photographs
Good-Bye, Noughties!
Gone are the fun, messy, and fast times at work—perhaps for the better, says the cast of Bridget Jones
Doctor Who?
Meet the Boston brain doctor who lives a double life writing incredibly successful thrillers under the pen name Freida McFadden
Making Sense of Luigi Mangione
On this week’s podcast, Bethany McLean looks at the potential roots of the alleged killer’s rage
Art Nouveau
In Paris, the Louvre presents its inaugural fashion exhibition, placing designers from Azzedine Alaïa to Yohji Yamamoto in dialogue with decorative arts from Byzantium to the Second Empire
Hot Takes
A handy digest of recent media coverage concerning the L.A. wildfires
Remembering Twin Peaks
The cast of David Lynch’s rich and strange television masterpiece recall the late director’s sheer unusualness
Setsuko Klossowska de Rola’s Guide to Paris
The Japanese painter and widow of the 20th-century painter Balthus shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
The “Preppy Killer” She Knew
A new novel revisits 1980s Manhattan—and the murder that defined an era
Leave the Cannoli, Take the Oval Office
From F.D.R. to J.F.K., Trump to Biden, a look behind the mythology of the Mob and the presidency
Cinema Inferno
Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, and Anita Ekberg all feature in a newly translated memoir of Italian cinema that’s oozing with sex, sleaze, and scandal
The Legacy of the “Preppy Killer”
On this week’s podcast, Cynthia Weiner discusses the shocking murder that riveted New York City in the 80s
A Star Is Born
An exhibition in Copenhagen gives the Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky his due after he spent years in the shadows of Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider group
Barbie Ferreira
From her Broadway debut to starring alongside Charli XCX in a horror film, the 28-year-old actress is soaking up life post-Euphoria
Here’s Stanley!
A new, two-volume compendium offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Shining
