The Last Renaissance Man
Ely Callaway went from running the Burlington textile company to founding ultra-successful wine and golf businesses—all while hiding a lifelong secret
Reality Check
From the French Proverbe to the English Experiment, a new coffee-table book surveys the avant-garde journals that paved the way for the 1920s’ Surrealist movement
Elephant Man
The secret history of the Asian elephants that Belgium’s Leopold II dispatched to Africa in service of his ruthless colonial vision
Clarion Top Notes, Plus His Head on a Cake Stand
Elza van den Heever, the Met’s new Salome, delivers the whole package
The Family Jewels
The Victoria and Albert Museum is paying tribute to Cartier with a glittering new show. Jacques Cartier’s great-granddaughter walks us through it
An Ode to the Humble Paperback
From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Bright Lights, Big City to A Little Life, books that were better the next time around
Nazi Loot In Limbo
Jake Heggie’s chamber opera Before It All Goes Dark
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss 75 newly reissued editions of Georges Simenon’s detective novels, featuring the French inspector Jules Maigret
Churchill’s Angels
How a secret W.W. II–era British spy ring fought the Nazis from New York’s Rockefeller Center—and how a female agent almost lost her life in the process
Stephanie Suberville’s Guide to San Miguel de Allende
The fashion designer and co-founder of Heirlome shares her go-to spots in the Mexican city
Paper Trails
A charming new exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum, in Amherst, pays tribute to an often overlooked aspect of picture book–making: endpapers
The Blood of an Englishman
One of the most sensational murders in recent British history becomes, in Robert Icke’s Manhunt, a moving disquisition on male rage, societal failure, and madness
Tintoretto’s Magnum Opus
An exhibition in Cincinnati unveils three newly restored works by the Italian Renaissance painter and rival of Titian
E. A. Hanks
Tom Hanks’s daughter makes her literary debut with a revelatory memoir
Taylor Swift, Harvard M.B.A.?
On this week’s podcast, Kevin Evers reveals the business insights we all can steal from Tay-Tay
Cocktails for the End of the World
Situated just outside of Brussels, the world’s only R.E.M.-themed bar acts as a modest, mellow shrine for the band’s devoted, graying fans
Hee-Haw, Taylor Swift!
It’s hard to recall a time when the singer wasn’t topping charts and bringing home Grammys. But her success was far from a sure bet
Terroir Terror
A former sommelier at a four-star New York City restaurant recalls a harrowing sexual assault she experienced behind the scenes of the fine-dining world
Requiem for a Continent
Ahead of Earth Day, photojournalist Guillaume Bonn’s haunting images expose the dark side of Africa’s wildlife havens, which are increasingly falling victim to unchecked industrialism
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a mountain climber’s account of sailing from Maine to Alaska, an examination of the air we breathe, and a look back at J.F.K. and Nikita Khrushchev’s Cold War–era diplomacy
