Does It Be Best?
Melania Trump’s book is the red Christmas tree of First Lady memoirs
The Sinner of City Hall
There was a time when New Yorkers loved a fun-loving, hard-partying, bribe-taking, crony-rewarding mayor
A Lotta Ins, a Lotta Outs, a Lotta What-Have-Yous
The origin—and immortality—of The Big Lebowski
Ave Maria!
She got Rudy Giuliani to fiddle with his crotch in the Borat sequel. Now Maria Bakalova steals the show as Ivana Trump in the new movie The Apprentice
The Ives Conundrum
Celebrating 150 years of Charles Ives, the masterful American composer we’re still quick to dismiss as a crank
The Living-Room M.F.A.
As the cost of graduate writing programs goes up and the degree’s perceived value declines, alternatives are springing up far from campus
The Rudolph Revival
A wunderkind who spent his later years in the wilderness, the visionary architect Paul Rudolph is finally getting the retrospective he deserves
Funny Face
An exhibition in Winslow, Arizona, celebrates Paul Ruschá, the multi-media artist, nomadic art-world jester, and longtime paramour of Eve Babitz
Inside the Strange World of Melania
On this week’s podcast, Andy Borowitz takes us inside the new memoir by Mrs. Trump
This Little Light of Mine
How the secret “cabin songs” of the enslaved took over the world
Luke Edward Hall’s Guide to London
The British artist and designer shares his favorite spots in his adopted city
The Breakfast Clubs
America’s morning television brightens the day but deadens the soul. Not the case in the U.K., where the shows are so bizarre, they can’t help but delight
Ariella Glaser
The 19-year-old actress discusses her first starring role, in White Bird, alongside Helen Mirren
Dirty Beast
Roald Dahl’s sadistic brilliance and disturbing anti-Semitism are the centerpiece of a dazzling new play at London’s Royal Court Theatre
Theft on the Nile
How a pair of intrepid, 19th-century British women smuggled an ancient coffin right out from under the noses of Egyptian site guards
We Are Family (for Now … )
Elliot Grainge is about to join his father, Sir Lucian Grainge, atop the global music industry. Is he a nepo baby? Or a patricide in the making?
Lunch with Lee Daniels
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, Lee Daniels reveals how Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor inspired him to become a director
The Invisible Man
Accompanying a retrospective in Barcelona, a new book collects more than 150 photographs by Louis Stettner, who captured the trials and triumphs of the 20th century’s working class while remaining virtually unknown
James Carville on What Kamala Needs to Do to Win
On this week’s podcast, the brains behind Bill Clinton’s upset victory looks at the current race
