Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a study of John Cheever’s short stories by his daughter, a fresh look at the siege of Leningrad, and an analysis of plagiarism for the age of A.I.
Tina Seidenfaden Busck’s Guide to Copenhagen
The founder of the Apartment design gallery shares her go-to spots in her hometown
Yerin Ha
The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era Cinderella in the latest season of Bridgerton—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself
Cézanne’s Final Act
With more than 70 works, an exhibition in Switzerland pays tribute to the revolutionary Post-Impressionist’s late period
Keeping Up with the Gould-Gessens
This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch
A toxic culture—complete with piranha tanks and Bond-villain rooms—ran rampant at the company founded by the British tech tycoon, who died in a freak yacht accident
“The Holy Grail of Shipwrecks”
A new book charts one man’s decades-long search for the lost Spanish galleon featured in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in a Time of Cholera
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a biography of the literary critic who championed Faulkner and Kerouac; a study of “vampire panics”; and a fresh translation of Thucydides’s history of the Peloponnesian War
Dita Von Teese’s Guide to Los Angeles
The Queen of Burlesque shares her go-to spots in the city she calls home
Rodney Everlasting
With the magic of Wes Anderson, the imagination of René Magritte, and the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, Rodney Smith’s photographs—collected in a new coffee-table book—create a fantastical world untouched by time
100 Years of Martha Graham
Amidst its centennial tour, the Martha Graham Dance Company channels its legacy of resistance and protest with a new piece from the choreographer Hope Boykin, set to a reimagined Leonard Bernstein score
Rule, Britannia!
After 250 years, King Charles has made the shrewd decision to revoke America’s independence
Daddy Issues
To the outside world, my father was a gifted and accomplished author. To his family, he was a self-destructive and deeply flawed man
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part IV
Norman Mailer snubbed Lawrence Schiller when accepting the Pulitzer Prize for The Executioner’s Song. But that didn’t stop Schiller from cutting Mailer in on his latest exclusive: Lee Harvey Oswald’s K.G.B. files
Marcus Samuelsson and Andrew Chapman’s Guide to Harlem
The duo behind Red Rooster share their go-to restaurants in the New York neighborhood
Zen and the Art of JB Blunk
Inspired by the American sculptor, lifelong Buddhist, and master of handmade objects, an exhibition in California showcases candleholders created by more than 100 international artists and designers
Gerran Howell
With roles alongside George Clooney and Benedict Cumberbatch under his belt, and a growing spate of online fangirls, the Welsh actor returns to The Pitt as a first-year medical resident
