Skip to Content

The Making of The Thick of It: Part I

Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, and others tell the story of how the profanity-laced, pitch-black political Britcom came to be, 20 years on

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Billionaire Boys’ Golf Club

On this week’s podcast, William D. Cohan reports on the latest power move for .01-percenters

Fifty Shades of White

A Robert Ryman retrospective goes up at David Zwirner’s Hong Kong outpost, marking the monochrome painter’s first solo exhibition in Greater China

The Mouths of Babes

Imagine Lucy from “Peanuts” with the politics of John Lennon and you’ve got “Mafalda,” a comic strip whose millions of fans included Gabriel García Márquez

Daddy Issues

When it comes to claiming responsibility for his son Eric, Trump points his short fingers at Biden

Holding Court

Former tennis world No. 1 Rafael Nadal was as much a worrier in his sport as he was a warrior, his nervous habits extending from elaborate pre-point rituals to clocking issues with the courts he won Grand Slams on

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

With Friends Like These …

Go Right Ahead—Compare Me To A Summer’s Day

Dozens of eloquent voices are heard in Shakespeare’s incomparable sonnets

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a provocative history of World War II atrocities, an investigation into pyramid schemes, and a foray into the ruins of Pompeii

The Missing Sister

Before #FreeBritney, there was Aimee Semple McPherson—an influential radio evangelist who fell victim to an abusive conservatorship

Laila Gohar’s Guide to Cairo

The culinary artist and co-founder of Gohar World shares her favorite spots in her hometown

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The “Dollar Princess” Diaries

John Singer Sargent’s portraits of Gilded Age heiresses who married into the British aristocracy go on view in London

Hollywood in Bloom

From Come September to Love in the Afternoon, a look at the film industry’s most memorable celebrations of spring

Inside the Sexual-Abuse Scandal That’s Shocked Italy

On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino looks at how a scion of one of Venice’s storied families went bad

Lunch with Natasha Lyonne

On this week’s Table for Two, everyone’s favorite gravel-voiced actress describes the target audience for Poker Face, why she should be the face of a pro-smoking ad campaign, and more

Shakespeare on Pointe

Balanchine’s 1962 adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a magical tale of love and longing, returns to New York City Ballet

Benito Skinner

In his new series, Overcompensating, the 31-year-old comedian joins stars such as Megan Fox, Kaia Gerber, and Charli XCX to tell his coming-out story

The Geography of Hope

Getting Lit

Literary salons are making a comeback in London, where live readings—complete with D.J.’s—are eclipsing nightclubs

The Pathological Ironist

Percival Everett, whose novel James won the Pulitzer Prize this month, talks Trump, Twain, and fighting darkness with humor

Department of Insanity

Move over, DOGE—Group Receiving Inducements For Trump (GRIFT), the president’s newest government agency, is draining the swamp, one luxury jet at a time