Hot Takes
A handy digest of recent media coverage concerning the L.A. wildfires
Making Sense of Luigi Mangione
On this week’s podcast, Bethany McLean looks at the potential roots of the alleged killer’s rage
Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer
Why Audrey Hepburn’s granddaughter forewent a career in the spotlight to pursue painting
Art Nouveau
In Paris, the Louvre presents its inaugural fashion exhibition, placing designers from Azzedine Alaïa to Yohji Yamamoto in dialogue with decorative arts from Byzantium to the Second Empire
Good-Bye, Noughties!
Gone are the fun, messy, and fast times at work—perhaps for the better, says the cast of Bridget Jones
Doctor Who?
Meet the Boston brain doctor who lives a double life writing incredibly successful thrillers under the pen name Freida McFadden
Setsuko Klossowska de Rola’s Guide to Paris
The Japanese painter and widow of the 20th-century painter Balthus shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Barbie Ferreira
From her Broadway debut to starring alongside Charli XCX in a horror film, the 28-year-old actress is soaking up life post-Euphoria
Lunch with Damian Woetzel
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the former New York City Ballet dancer, now the president of Juilliard, discusses why dancers don’t get enough credit for being athletes
Leave the Cannoli, Take the Oval Office
From F.D.R. to J.F.K., Trump to Biden, a look behind the mythology of the Mob and the presidency
Here’s Stanley!
A new, two-volume compendium offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Shining
The “Preppy Killer” She Knew
A new novel revisits 1980s Manhattan—and the murder that defined an era
Cinema Inferno
Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, and Anita Ekberg all feature in a newly translated memoir of Italian cinema that’s oozing with sex, sleaze, and scandal
Killing Charlie Hebdo
Ten years ago, Islamist terrorists stormed the office of the satirical French weekly, Charlie Hebdo, killing a dozen people—but the magazine lives on
The Legacy of the “Preppy Killer”
On this week’s podcast, Cynthia Weiner discusses the shocking murder that riveted New York City in the 80s
A Star Is Born
An exhibition in Copenhagen gives the Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky his due after he spent years in the shadows of Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider group
One Don to Rule Them All
Shocking new documents from Mar-a-Lago reveal Trump’s secret plans to conquer Legoland and Middle-earth
The Diary of Elon Musk
An exclusive look into the ever disruptive, U.K.-obsessed, Nazi-curious mindset of the Leader of the Free-Speech World
Heart of Darkness
In Brussels, Fanny and Alexander gets an operatic makeover
Sean Scully’s Guide to London
The Irish-American artist shares his favorite spots in Hampstead, the neighborhood he calls home