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Lunch with Emma Roberts

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the actress tucks in with host Bruce Bozzi and discusses the importance of movies that feel nostalgic, the dangerous pull of social media, and more …

Adolf Hitler and the Holy Grail

On this week’s podcast, Adam Hay-Nicholls shares the incredible story about Nazis, a postwoman, and M.I.6

The Rest Is Fiction

Phillip Toledano’s A.I.-generated photographs of 1940s and 1950s New York, collected in a new book, blur the line between truth and fantasy

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series

Down and Out in 90s America

Bad Connection

An open challenge to the puzzle editors at The New York Times

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The No. 1 from Hell

Recorded for the soundtrack to Four Weddings and a Funeral, “Love Is All Around” was so popular that even the band who sang it grew tired of its success

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a murder mystery set in Maine; a history of colonial Britain told through walking routes; and a look at Paris’s Belle Époque

Posing a Challenger

In the lead-up to the 1986 Challenger explosion, an engineer raised the alarm about safety concerns. His inability to stop the disaster upended his life

The Bikeriders Diaries

Director Jeff Nichols reveals how his new film, based on Danny Lyon’s seminal 1968 photo series of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, came to be

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Jodie Comer

Fresh off her starring role in the West End and Broadway hit Prima Facie, the actress stars opposite Austin Butler in The Bikeriders

The Lady Gangster of New York

Vivian Gordon made a name for herself as the sexual extortionist of Jazz Age New York. Then she disappeared

Lucian Freud’s “Slave”

David Dawson was the artist’s fixer, confidant, and gofer—and he still lives in his master’s house

Publicity for the Devil

Reality Bites

Is Wall Street Funding a Fourth Reich?

On this week’s podcast, Alessandra Stanley discusses Trump, tech and finance bros, and their newfound love for Trump

Midnight in Toronto

Fifty years ago, Mikhail Baryshnikov, a star of the U.S.S.R.’s Kirov Ballet, defected from his troupe after a performance in Canada. Dance was never the same

A Great Deal More Night Music

Stephen Sondheim’s orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick, doubles his score in the world premiere of a re-arranged A Little Night Music at New York’s Lincoln Center

The Most Expensive Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Sanyu befriended Picasso and Giacometti yet died destitute. Today, he’s known as the “Chinese Matisse”

Who Is the Real Rebecca Minkoff?

Accused of hypocrisy and workplace hostility, the fashion designer—and devout Scientologist—has gone from #Girlboss to horrible boss to Real Housewife

The Secret Source

While the Mitchell Algus Gallery has launched the careers of many current art-world sensations, Algus himself struggles to pay the rent

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook