Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a charming history of American presidents’ financial affairs, Tove Jansson’s chronicle of summers in Finland, and a collection of Dorothy Parker’s New Yorker reviews
Su Wu’s Guide to Mexico City
The American curator, editor, and writer shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Boffing for Britain
The new, high-camp TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals sticks two fingers up at today’s sexless puritanism
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
True Confessions?
Did Joan Didion’s husband have the hots for Eve Babitz—or was he moving in another direction?
Inside the Secret Life of Joan Didion
On this week’s podcast, Lili Anolik reveals what she learned about the revered writer and her private life
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
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?
Can’t Read, Won’t Read
Have children fallen out of love with books? And, if so, does it matter?
Like to a Lonely Dragon
A shattering Coriolanus from Tom Hiddleston, ten years on
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
Adventures in Absinthe
When I set out to expose a black-market counterfeiter of vintage absinthe, things didn’t go the way I expected
Mimi Thorisson’s Guide to Turin
The cookbook author and chef shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Open Roads to Candy Mountain
In an interview, the actor Kevin J. O’Connor reflects on his experience shooting Robert Frank’s newly restored 1987 film
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
Teenage Wasteland
At the turn of the century, Abercrombie & Fitch led a pop-culture movement hyping up consumerism. Millennials bought in—and got duped
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
