Lucas Zelnick
After a brief stint as a corporate strategist, the young comedian started a stand-up club in Manhattan
The Wellness Madness
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is sick of wellness. What he wants is more badness, malice, and depravity
Marta Has Left the Building
In Death Valley Junction, a theater like no other
Guiding Spirit
To write about Carson McCullers, the great American novelist, a biographer briefly lived in her childhood home
Mob-Wife Style
Sofía Vergara becomes Miami’s biggest drug lord in the new Netflix series Griselda, and leaves audiences with one burning question: Who is writing this nonsense?
Breaking the Mode
A new series tells the story of Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, and the momentous couture collection that rose from the ashes of W.W. II, changing fashion forever
Carving Beauty
A retrospective at the Huntington Art Museum celebrates the artist Sargent Claude Johnson, a key figure of the Black Renaissance
Stones on the Beach
Eighteen years ago in Rio, the Rolling Stones played to the largest audience ever assembled for a rock concert. Their creative director recalls the madness
Romancing the Twitter Bro
The untold story of the lengths to which Twitter founder Jack Dorsey went to sway his company’s acquisition in Elon Musk’s favor
The Story of the Swan Capote Spared
On this week’s podcast, Joseph Rodota reveals the limits of the writer’s duplicity
A Cinematic Séance
Peter Bogdanovich interviewed all the greats, from Hitchcock to Tarantino. Now you can hear the top filmmakers of the 21st century commune with the giants of Old Hollywood
A Whole New Ball Game
How a father and son created ESPN, sports programming’s North Star, on a wing, a prayer, and a chunk of Getty cash—and walked out with almost nothing
Party of Five
The Last Dinner Party, a new rock band out of London, is shaking up the city’s music and style scenes
Weathering the Storm
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave
Spin Doctor
How libertarians’ efforts to deregulate the health-care system has given rise to dubious doctors with dangerous medical advice
Comeback King
Two new biographies of King Charles mark a return to good old-fashioned royal journalism
The Long Good-Bye
After 12 seasons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s mostly improvised juggernaut and HBO’s longest-running comedy, comes to an end. Well, probably …
To Catch a Mona Lisa Thief
How Picasso got framed for stealing Leonardo’s masterpiece
