Truth and Consequences
The British crime drama Top Boy is among the most discussed shows on Netflix. Why is no one talking about its creator, Ronan Bennett?
The Question of Violence
Hamas’s October 7 attack has made a new biography of Frantz Fanon, the formidable and incendiary theorist of decolonization, all too timely
Beyond the Friends Zone
In the 90s, Jennifer Aniston achieved the unimaginable: becoming TV’s top star and ensuring equal pay with her male colleagues. Then she became the poster child for childless women
A Very, Very British Scandal
On this week’s podcast: inside the worst miscarriage of justice in the history of the U.K.
Back from the Dead
The celebrated Nadia Boulanger’s La Ville Morte surfaces in Athens, then in New York
Kai Alexander
The English actor endured boot camp to play a World War II air-force pilot in Masters of the Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s new series
The Mother of Invention
A new biography of Margaret Cavendish reveals how the 17th-century writer and philosopher treated her groundbreaking work like her child
Roman Halaby
The Lebanese designer Gilbert Halaby made a name for himself in Rome with a charming jewelry-and-handbag atelier. Thirty years on, he’s also taken up his lifelong passion of painting
Jodie Foster’s Coming of Age
The actress looks back at the time a shooter attempted to assassinate President Reagan on her behalf—and discusses the unexpected perks of being an older woman in Hollywood
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books range from murder in Edith Wharton’s New York to the notorious 2003 Alperton Angels cult case
Chez Karl
A look inside the many homes of Karl Lagerfeld, from Paris to Rome, Biarritz to Lake Champlain
What Is Angelina Jolie Hiding?
On this week’s podcast, Dana Brown reveals how to sneak into her tightly guarded NoHo outpost
California Cool
A retrospective at the Palm Springs Art Museum honors the legacy of the midcentury architect Albert Frey
A Less Perfect Union
Flashbacks to the Buckley–Vidal smackdowns that changed our media landscape forever
Stories of Survival
A journalist chronicles present-day Lebanon’s turbulence—from the 2020 port explosion to its current financial crisis—from the perspective of women
Scaling “Mount Proust”
After reading all 3,200 pages of In Search of Lost Time, one editor explains what critics—including Cormac McCarthy—got wrong about the masterpiece
Amicus Curious
Making a killing in the poetry biz to pursue the magic of briefs and appellate courts
