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The Everyman Leading Man

Glen Powell can play heartthrob, goofball, or action hero—he’s the charming, jock antidote to Timothée Chalamet

John Cuneo’s Sketchbook

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mystery books, films, and podcasts

In a Hollywood Far, Far Away

Long Island Hopping

A road trip around the homes, archives, and collections of artists who found inspiration on Long Island, from Jackson Pollock to Judith Leiber

A Jewel of the Avant-Garde

The Fondation Maeght, in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, celebrates its 60th anniversary with an expansion, an exhibition … and a party!

Lunch with Susie Essman

On this week’s Table for Two, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star talks about working with Larry David, concocting her character’s outrageous outfits, and what it’s like to live across from a comedy club

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a biography of Ayn Rand, a murder mystery set in the Deep South, and a collection of Ernest Hemingway’s letters

Hopeless Romantics

Christian Louboutin’s Guide to Paris

The fashion designer and creator of the red sole shares his favorite spots in his home city

The Making of a Movement

In the 1960s and 1970s, women’s liberation transformed America. Voices from that time tell how it came to be

Henry Alford’s “This or That”

A pop quiz of cultural phenomena

Black Sun

Gritty and glamorous, Chinatown combined the best of Old and New Hollywood

Kevin Costner’s Post Apocalypse

The Postman was meant to be the Oscar winner’s magnum opus—instead it became the tale of a superstar’s self-indulgence

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

One-Man Show

Poster City

A new book collects a century of posters and advertisements that shaped New York City’s rise as the cultural capital of the world

The Last Days of Joan Didion

Cory Leadbeater looked after the author in her final days—and after them, too

Is Milano the New Monaco?

On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino reveals why being a tax exile is the new flex for the 1 percent

Stranger than Fiction

Teatro Nuovo gives Carolina Uccelli’s lone surviving opera, Anna di Resburgo, a long-overdue second shot

Clarence Maclin

In his breakout role, the formerly incarcerated actor stars alongside Colman Domingo and Paul Raci in the semi-biographical film Sing Sing

Tanu Vasu’s Sketchbook

Notes from Underground

After Auschwitz

Revisiting the posthumous 2010 stage premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg’s fierce masterpiece The Passenger