Can’t Read, Won’t Read
Have children fallen out of love with books? And, if so, does it matter?
From Russia with Lust
Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora, was a hit at Cannes and is now drawing Oscar buzz. How did he make sex work so respectable?
True Confessions?
Did Joan Didion’s husband have the hots for Eve Babitz—or was he moving in another direction?
Sophie Calle’s Lessons in Provocation
A genre-defying show in Minneapolis marks the French artist, memoirist, and voyeur’s first-ever North American retrospective
Architecture’s Philosopher
A new coffee-table book celebrates the life and career of I. M. Pei, the modernist visionary behind Paris’s Louvre Pyramid and Hong Kong’s Bank of China Tower
Boffing for Britain
The new, high-camp TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals sticks two fingers up at today’s sexless puritanism
Like to a Lonely Dragon
A shattering Coriolanus from Tom Hiddleston, ten years on
Adventures in Absinthe
When I set out to expose a black-market counterfeiter of vintage absinthe, things didn’t go the way I expected
Yulia Navalnaya Picks Up the Baton
Eight months after the Kremlin murdered her husband, Alexei Navalny’s widow reflects on their marriage, their shared aspirations for their home country, and why she doesn’t hate Vladimir Putin
Mimi Thorisson’s Guide to Turin
The cookbook author and chef shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
From Russia, with Lulz
Mark Eydelshteyn landed his first English-speaking role with a very unusual audition tape
All About Marilyn
Eve Arnold’s newly discovered pictures of Marilyn Monroe capture the enduring friendship between Magnum’s first female photographer and an actress fighting for success in a male-dominated world
Call Him by His Name
In an interview, André Aciman discusses the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name and his new memoir, about his own teenage years spent in Italy
Inside the Summer’s Most Mysterious Tragedy
This week, Sam Kashner discusses what he learned about the sinking of the doomed, multi-million-dollar yacht Bayesian
Deadly Pleasures to Listen to, Read, and Watch
Get in the Halloween spirit with this month’s best mystery podcast, book, and movie
