“A Castro or Worse”
Patrice Lumumba won the Congo independence in 1960, but his suspected Soviet sympathies led to his overthrow. A new book reveals the man behind the myth—and the C.I.A.’s role in his murder
A Portable Feast
A new book pairs Dwight Garner’s complementary obsessions: reading and eating
Family Values
In a new book, a son pays homage to his mother, a muckraking investigative journalist
Moonlight
Arshile Gorky’s Charred Beloved I, “an abstraction of moonlight” going up for auction at Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale, evokes the poetry of his predecessors
Skeletons in the Closet
A new true-crime podcast deals with a grisly murder, a faceless ghost, and just how far you can stretch family ties
The Life and Legend of Maggie Higgins
She was one of the few female war correspondents assigned to W.W. II and Korea. A new book details Higgins’s intrepid life, both in the field and amid the misogyny of the 20th-century news industry
Hit and Run
When writers on the TV series Fauda pitched a storyline eerily similar to the recent terrorist invasion of Israel, the show’s creators dismissed it as unrealistic. Now the unthinkable has become a reality
A Raging Bull’s Fighting Words
Robert De Niro has a new baby and a celebrated new film—his 10th with Martin Scorsese—but what the acclaimed actor really wants to discuss is the crazy and absurd phenomenon of Donald Trump
His Back Pages
Alongside the opening of the Bob Dylan Center, in Tulsa, comes a giant new volume of handwritten lyrics, letters from friends including George Harrison, and rare manuscripts
The Girl with the Gimlet Eye
New York writer Natasha Stagg translated her exacting cultural critiques into work for big brands. Her latest book grapples with questions about social media, identity, and authenticity in our increasingly online world
Phony Business
J. D. Salinger refused to let his novels and stories be adapted for film and television. But that hasn’t stopped some directors
Cat-and-Mouse Game
It was never going to be easy adapting “Cat Person,” Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker short story, into a movie—even with Nicholas Braun starring
The Magic of Marisol
A traveling retrospective of Marisol Escobar’s work highlights the onetime Warhol girl’s wit and humor
Lunch with Irving Azoff
Music’s boldest executive, who has managed everyone from the Eagles to Nicki Minaj, joins host Bruce Bozzi for a power lunch on this week’s episode of Table for Two
Why Sam Bankman-Fried Is Screwed
On this week’s podcast, Jacob Silverman reveals how the feds are crushing the bitcoin hustler
Ludovic Nkoth
One year after moving to Paris, the 28-year-old artist, known for expressive portraits that center on Blackness, is collaborating with some of France’s most prestigious institutions
Write Book, Bake Cake, Buy Flowers
Acclaimed first as a novel, then as a movie, The Hours finds a niche at the Metropolitan Opera
After-School Activity
While spies are frequently portrayed as hardened, middle-aged men, a new book reveals that undercover agents are often twentysomething women
The Inside Story on the Craziest Grifter Story Ever
Listen to the editor of “The Grift, the Prince, and the Twist” as he reveals how he uncovered the con
