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Less Was More

A new documentary explores the complicated legacy of Jule Campbell, the woman behind the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

The Seven-Year Hitch

Director Billy Wilder wanted sex in Marilyn Monroe’s comedy about infidelity—but Hollywood’s prohibitive censorship rules wouldn’t allow it

The Island of Jared Kushner

On this week’s podcast, a look at the latest hustle from Trump’s son-in-law: a luxury resort with poisonous snakes

Fashion Forward

An exhibition in Paris celebrates Paul Poiret, the early-20th-century couturier who freed women from corsets and inspired designers from Christian Dior to John Galliano

A Dutchman in Dublin

Gung-ho Wagner from the Irish National Opera

Shark Tales

In time for the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a new book reveals how Robert Shaw’s haunting monologue came to be

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a transfixing chronicle of the nuclear age, a look back at Cambridge’s queer history, and a portrait of everyday life in war-torn Ukraine

Alexandre de Betak’s Guide to Paris

The fashion show producer shares his favorite design shops in his hometown

The Great James Bond Renaissance

While the next 007 film languishes in Amazon purgatory, a new wave of book spin-offs are re-inventing the British spy for the next generation

Bessie Carter

The daughter of Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter lands the lead role in the new Mitford-sisters series, Outrageous

A Photo Finish

Forty-five years after The Shining’s release, a reporter and an academic doggedly tracked down the original version of the eerie photograph that Kubrick chose to close the film with

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Health Scare

Popular theories on why R.F.K. Jr. fired the entire C.D.C. vaccine advisory panel

Summer of Cézanne

In Aix-en-Provence, a wave of exhibitions pays tribute to the French painter

Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding

On this week’s podcast, Stuart Heritage reports on what to expect at the bridezilla-iest wedding ever

Portrait of a Country on Fire

A new book of photographs by Mitch Epstein captures the devastating impact of industry on the American landscape—and the fragile pockets of nature that remain

Parade’s End

Trump’s birthday wish list has a lot more on it than just a Soviet-style military procession

When We Were Young

My Best Friendship with Kate Spade

The designer’s co-founder reveals how a broke student from Kansas named Katy Brosnahan became handbag maven “Kate Spade”

Lisa’s Mystery Picks

This week, don’t miss an Agatha Christie–meets–P. G. Wodehouse murder mystery, a police procedural by the creator of Broadchurch, and a whodunit set in a Maine retiree town

Blanca Miró Scrimieri’s Guide to Barcelona

The Spanish fashion designer and co-founder of La Veste shares her favorite spots in her hometown

White Knight In the Trauma Center

From Paris, Kirill Serebrennikov’s off-the-rails Lohengrin

Inside Jared Leto’s Sex Scandal

On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino discusses her report on the women who have accused the actor of grooming

The Book of Earthly Delights

Just outside Paris, a new exhibition displays the luminous pages of an illustrated prayer book commissioned in the 15th century by Jean, the Duke of Berry