Emperor of the New Order
How a promising young director gave up a comfortable life in Hollywood—and gained true creative freedom for a new generation of filmmakers. An exclusive excerpt from The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
Finding Albert Ballin
How a German-Jewish businessman helped make possible the emigration of 1.5 million Jews from Eastern Europe—then largely disappeared from history
Acronyms for Adults Only
How to keep up with the texting shorthand your elders use to confound you
We All Make Mystiques
The unforgettable night in New York when Jackie Kennedy watched as opera’s greatest diva sang Tosca and bungled the high C
Inside the Night Jackie Kennedy Stared Down Onassis’s Mistress
On this week’s podcast, John Mauceri discusses an evening—and two divas—he’ll never forget
Murder, They Wrote
Long-cold cases get hot again in the season’s best mystery books—and oldie-but-goodie TV dramas
Hollywood Beginning
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel captures the actor’s mindset so incisively that Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps are early fans
Man’s Best Friends
For his entire career, Michael Frayn avoided writing about people he knew. His new book, written at 89, is about 13 of his closest friends
Making Up for Lost Time
After a decade-long wait, a follow-up to the best-selling debut thriller I Am Pilgrim is here
From The Office to the Lab
Lee Eisenberg knows funny. But he and his wife, Emily Jane Fox, learned a lot working together on Lessons in Chemistry
Nia DaCosta
With The Marvels, 34-year-old Nia DaCosta is now the youngest director of a Marvel movie, and the first Black woman to have a go at the franchise
Stanley Kubrick’s Waterloo
Having just tackled the end of the world and the mysteries of the universe, the obsessive director set his sights on Napoleon. Tens of thousands of index cards later, he waved the white flag
My Name Is Barbra’s Index
Streisand refused to give readers any shortcuts to her 992-page memoir, so we did it for you
Are You in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir?
On this week’s podcast, George Kalogerakis reveals how we created the Streisand Index
Lunch with Nicole Avant
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, host Bruce Bozzi is joined by the former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas to talk about family, grief, and growing up in Hollywood
Calder on Their Minds
A Seattle power-collector couple’s love for the great American artist of suspended sculptures reaches new heights at the Seattle Art Museum
A Head for Business, a Body for Sin
From Virginia Woolf to Carolee Schneemann, a new book explores the role of the female body in art
Your Grandmother’s Oklahoma!
“Better than the original!” raved Mary Rodgers, the composer’s daughter
