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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

Parade’s End

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

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

When We Were Young

Health Scare

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

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

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

Risko’s Sketchbook

Hollywood’s Reckoning

After five years of hardship, from the pandemic to the writers’ strike to the wildfires, Los Angeles is no longer the movie hub it once was. Can it come back?

Dark Horses

Inside the murky world of doping in Thoroughbred horse racing

Celine Song

A stint as a matchmaker inspired the Past Lives director’s latest film, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans

Louis Tunes

A new monograph collects the eccentric, avant-garde illustrations of Louis M. Glackens, the satirical cartoonist and longtime staff artist at Puck

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

Big Stick Energy

Owen Wilson’s new Apple TV+ golf sitcom might be the new Ted Lasso

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Call of the Wild West

The Real Jay Gatsby

Did F. Scott Fitzgerald model his titular character after his real-life Princeton school-mate?

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

Band of Brothers

How the Gallagher siblings broke up Oasis five minutes before going onstage in front of 40,000 people

Albert Einstein’s Eureka! Moment

How a spiritual tradition with origins in ancient Greece influenced the Nobel Prize–winning physicist—and shaped the greatest scientific achievements of the millennium

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a new edition of John Gregory Dunne’s quasi-divorce memoir, an investigation into a Manhattan-art-gallery scandal, and a short-story collection capturing life in northern China