The Grand Illusionist
From debutantes to lumberjacks, pop artists to stockbrokers, matinee idols to praying mantises, a new coffee-table book surveys Larry Fink’s wide-ranging, unconventional black-and-white photographs
Art Nouveau
In Paris, the Louvre presents its inaugural fashion exhibition, placing designers from Azzedine Alaïa to Yohji Yamamoto in dialogue with decorative arts from Byzantium to the Second Empire
Making Sense of Luigi Mangione
On this week’s podcast, Bethany McLean looks at the potential roots of the alleged killer’s rage
Remembering Twin Peaks
The cast of David Lynch’s rich and strange television masterpiece recall the late director’s sheer unusualness
Hot Takes
A handy digest of recent media coverage concerning the L.A. wildfires
Setsuko Klossowska de Rola’s Guide to Paris
The Japanese painter and widow of the 20th-century painter Balthus shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Lunch with Damian Woetzel
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the former New York City Ballet dancer, now the president of Juilliard, discusses why dancers don’t get enough credit for being athletes
Here’s Stanley!
A new, two-volume compendium offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Shining
The “Preppy Killer” She Knew
A new novel revisits 1980s Manhattan—and the murder that defined an era
Leave the Cannoli, Take the Oval Office
From F.D.R. to J.F.K., Trump to Biden, a look behind the mythology of the Mob and the presidency
Cinema Inferno
Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, and Anita Ekberg all feature in a newly translated memoir of Italian cinema that’s oozing with sex, sleaze, and scandal
The Legacy of the “Preppy Killer”
On this week’s podcast, Cynthia Weiner discusses the shocking murder that riveted New York City in the 80s
A Star Is Born
An exhibition in Copenhagen gives the Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky his due after he spent years in the shadows of Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider group
Barbie Ferreira
From her Broadway debut to starring alongside Charli XCX in a horror film, the 28-year-old actress is soaking up life post-Euphoria
The Diary of Elon Musk
An exclusive look into the ever disruptive, U.K.-obsessed, Nazi-curious mindset of the Leader of the Free-Speech World
One Don to Rule Them All
Shocking new documents from Mar-a-Lago reveal Trump’s secret plans to conquer Legoland and Middle-earth
Killing Charlie Hebdo
Ten years ago, Islamist terrorists stormed the office of the satirical French weekly, Charlie Hebdo, killing a dozen people—but the magazine lives on
Heart of Darkness
In Brussels, Fanny and Alexander gets an operatic makeover
