Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a murder mystery set in Maine; a history of colonial Britain told through walking routes; and a look at Paris’s Belle Époque
Posing a Challenger
In the lead-up to the 1986 Challenger explosion, an engineer raised the alarm about safety concerns. His inability to stop the disaster upended his life
The Lady Gangster of New York
Vivian Gordon made a name for herself as the sexual extortionist of Jazz Age New York. Then she disappeared
The Bikeriders Diaries
Director Jeff Nichols reveals how his new film, based on Danny Lyon’s seminal 1968 photo series of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, came to be
Lucian Freud’s “Slave”
David Dawson was the artist’s fixer, confidant, and gofer—and he still lives in his master’s house
The Secret Source
While the Mitchell Algus Gallery has launched the careers of many current art-world sensations, Algus himself struggles to pay the rent
The Most Expensive Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
Sanyu befriended Picasso and Giacometti yet died destitute. Today, he’s known as the “Chinese Matisse”
A Great Deal More Night Music
Stephen Sondheim’s orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick, doubles his score in the world premiere of a re-arranged A Little Night Music at New York’s Lincoln Center
Midnight in Toronto
Fifty years ago, Mikhail Baryshnikov, a star of the U.S.S.R.’s Kirov Ballet, defected from his troupe after a performance in Canada. Dance was never the same
Who Is the Real Rebecca Minkoff?
Accused of hypocrisy and workplace hostility, the fashion designer—and devout Scientologist—has gone from #Girlboss to horrible boss to Real Housewife
Jodie Comer
Fresh off her starring role in the West End and Broadway hit Prima Facie, the actress stars opposite Austin Butler in The Bikeriders
Is Wall Street Funding a Fourth Reich?
On this week’s podcast, Alessandra Stanley discusses Trump, tech and finance bros, and their newfound love for Trump
The Tortured-Writers Department
Sitting in the cafés frequented by Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway to write a book about Paris sounds like a dream—until it’s time to put pen to paper
Miles Greenberg’s Guide to Montreal
The Canadian artist shares the spots that shaped his adolescence as an art-school dropout
Miloš Karadaglić
The reigning superstar of the classical guitar on recalibrating his priorities
Going Mad!
An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Massachusetts, offers a window into the mad, mad world of the historic humor magazine
Lunch with Kristen Wiig
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the comedian and actress reveals that she couldn’t tell Bridesmaids was going to be a success until after shooting was over
Is the British Museum a Shill for Big Oil?
On this week’s podcast, Rebecca John explains how the oil industry uses the arts to buy our approval
Nuptials of the Rich and Famous
Things are a little different at celebrity weddings. There are certain rules
