The Eternal Ana Mendieta
Four decades after her contentious death, the pioneer of body and land art—known for dissolving the boundaries between herself, nature, and the spirit world—is celebrated with a retrospective in London
The Sport of All Sports
“A game of the people, by the people”: as the World Cup comes to a close, a coffee-table book—and a devoted fan—pays tribute to the elegance and grandeur of soccer
Nicola Lees’s Guide to Aspen
The C.E.O. and artistic director of the Aspen Art Museum shares her go-to spots in the Colorado city
The Poet’s Premiums
Wallace Stevens was a successful insurance executive by day and a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet by night—but his letters reveal he had existential doubts about the trade-off
The Pleasure Gardens of London
Forget the candlelit ballrooms of Jane Austen novels—partying in 18th-century London meant water taxis, drunken aristocrats, and enough pyrotechnics to level Pompeii
Bubba Weiler
His debut play made it Off Broadway; now, for his second act, the emerging star of New York’s downtown theater scene is reaching back to his small-town Catholic roots
Pulp It Up
Fresh off last summer’s chart-topping More—their first release in two decades—a newly re-united Pulp, the Brit-pop heroes behind “Common People,” return to London to perform the album in its entirety for the first time
Some Like It Sleek
Clean lines, open plans, boxy silhouettes … a new coffee-table book traces how the eastern tip of Long Island became the proving ground for American modernism
Grand Lutetia Hotel
How a Paris hotel that once hosted Hemingway and Picasso became a home for anti-Nazi exiles, German intelligence officers, and, finally, concentration-camp survivors
Randall Poster’s America 250 Playlist
Ritchie Valens, Paul Simon (who else?), Los Lobos, Dr. John, and more
Naval Gazing
Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jack Nicholson … As Fleet Week returns to New York, a look back at the sailors who have stolen our hearts since the 1930s
An Unhealthy Dose of Skepticism
How a handful of housewives dedicated to debunking the official account of the J.F.K. assassination unwittingly ushered in the age of the conspiracy theorist—from 9/11 truthers to One Direction’s “Larry” stans
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Turns 40
Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck recall the making of a teen classic
The Odd Couple of American Art
When Andy Warhol and Jamie Wyeth met in the late 1960s, the king of Pop art and the heir to America’s first family of painting struck up an unlikely friendship that would carry them from Chadds Ford to Monte Carlo
The Length of Trump’s Fingers—Revealed!
Graydon Carter has been calling Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian” for decades. Now, at last, the measurements are in
