God is Not Not Great
Christopher Beha, former editor of Harper’s Magazine, talks struggling with atheism, his return to Catholicism, and how Trump is the Antichrist
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada’s Guide to Majorca
The Spanish fashion designer shares her go-to spots on the island
Harry and Meghan’s Mane Chance
With their prospects drying up faster than Meghan can make her jam, the Sussexes’ latest Netflix cash grab is a polo series set in Wellington, Florida
The Unbreakable Maria Lassnig
Three concurrent exhibitions pay tribute to the Austrian artist whose radical explorations of self defied the strictures of the male-dominated 20th-century art world
Force of Fashion
From Met Gala ensembles to personal treasures, an archival exhibition in Provence pays tribute to the elegantly extravagant editor André Leon Talley, whose influence lives on
Helmut Newton’s Hot Takes
A coffee-table book and exhibition re-create a 1999 album of the photographer’s most experimental work, collecting never-before-seen images and their handwritten pencil annotations
When Larry McMurtry Met the Merry Pranksters
The biographer of the pre-eminent Texas chronicler recounts an infamous encounter with Ken Kesey’s gang of LSD enthusiasts, later immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a roadmap to saving America’s public high schools, a cartographer’s analysis of the Dark Ages, and a guide to coping with our most difficult emotions
Tessa Tran’s Guide to Hanoi
The creative director and C.E.O. of Chan Luu shares her go-to spots in the Vietnamese capital
Ella Stiller
After discovering a knack for comedy at Juilliard, Ben Stiller’s 23-year-old daughter is now starring alongside Lisa Kudrow in the third and final season of The Comeback
“Serious Photographs Disguised as Entertainment”
With the arrival of warmer weather, two new coffee-table books revisit the late Martin Parr’s wry pictures—and the environmental warning simmering beneath them
The Making of Hannah Montana
On the show’s 20th anniversary, one zillennial goes behind the scenes of the Disney Channel juggernaut that launched a 13-year-old Miley Cyrus and captivated a generation
Matisse’s Last Act
An exhibition in Paris collects more than 230 works created by the French artist in his last decade, when illness confined him to a life in bed that sparked a spectacular burst of creativity
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mysteries: a return of Tana French’s retired cop, Cal Hooper, and a debut thriller about a female detective investigating a strange cold case
The Last Gentleman
My father, George Plimpton, was chivalrous, charming, and always a little out of reach
Thomas Dane’s Guide to Naples
The English gallerist shares his go-to spots in one of the cities he calls home
Dishing with Ruthie Rogers
In an exclusive excerpt from the River Cafe impresario’s forthcoming book, Wes Anderson, Paul McCartney, Tina Fey, David Beckham, and others talk all things food, from microwave dinners to caviar
Cinema Paraíso
With its glory days as Brazil’s Hollywood long behind it, the northern city of Recife is having a film renaissance, powering productions such as the Oscar–nominated The Secret Agent