Tom Wolfe’s Secret Weapon
On this week’s podcast, Peter Stevenson reveals how the writer’s wife secretly reported on New York’s social elite
Under the Tuscan (and Umbrian) Sun
A road trip around the homes, archives, and foundations of the artists of central Italy, and those who made their name there, from Beverly Pepper to Alberto Burri to Niki de Saint Phalle
Watts’s Stacks
The Rolling Stones drummer was a passionate collector of first editions and jazz ephemera
Better by Design
A new book offers a survey of the U.S. Embassies built during the Cold War, designed by some of the world’s most celebrated architects, including Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, and Edward Durell Stone
Assignment: Sinatra
Part IV
Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject
Game Changer
In January, football player Damar Hamlin nearly died of cardiac arrest during a game. Instead of creating new safety measures, N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell is spinning the story as a triumph for the league
Kelly Beeman
The painter and illustrator was convinced art couldn’t be a full-time job. But when Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson came across her drawings on Instagram, overnight success followed
Packed House
After a decade of delays, the brand-new Perelman Performing Arts Center will finally host actors, dancers, and artists in Manhattan’s financial district
Daddy Issues
The Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci biographer Walter Isaacson reveals what drew him to Elon Musk—and how a rare conversation with Musk’s father shed light on the billionaire entrepreneur’s erratic (to put it lightly) behavior
Breaking the Bank
The victim of an international crypto-currency scam details how she was drawn into the OneCoin fraud, and why the woman behind the scheme landed on the F.B.I.’s 10 Most Wanted list
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss an Agatha Christie-inspired graphic-novel, a history of the AR-15, and a biography of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert
Open Secrets
A collection of Amy Winehouse’s teenage-diary entries and song lyrics sheds light on the artist 12 years after her untimely death
Jimmy Buffett’s Life Lessons
On this week’s podcast, Tom Freston remembers his friend and the adventures they had together
Lunch with Matthew Broderick
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the No Hard Feelings actor remembers his rough-and-tumble days growing up on Washington Square North, in New York City
A Tweed Apart
Featuring more than 200 looks, a sweeping retrospective of Coco Chanel’s life and career goes up at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Longest Day
In an exclusive excerpt from an upcoming history of The New York Times: how 9/11 tested the paper’s newsroom—and fueled a wildly successful transition online
Bigger than Life
Tragedy! Triumph! Tinsel! One hundred years of the Hollywood sign
Poster Boy
A North Carolina–based illustrator reimagines contemporary films as vintage book covers
Assisted Leading
White House aides worry that Biden is showing his age—or Methuselah’s
