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Mobbed Up: The Two Faces of Robert De Niro

On this week’s podcast, Michael Sragow takes us inside the new mobster movie from Nick Pileggi and Barry Levinson

The Friend Zone

The author Sigrid Nunez on the film adaptation of her National Book Award–winning novel, starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and a Great Dane

Jack of All Trades

The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, presents its first Jack Whitten retrospective, celebrating the late artist’s lasting mark on everything from abstraction to sculpture and drawings

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss an homage to Siena’s artistic golden age, a new collection of Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels, and a charming exploration of why we gossip

Gia Kuan’s Guide to Seoul

The New York publicist and founder of Gia Kuan Consulting shares her go-to spots in one of her favorite cities

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Fakir News!

Tom Burke

Now starring alongside Cate Blanchett in both Black Bag and The Seagull, the British actor opens up about overcoming extreme shyness

Is Savannah, Georgia, the Next Chernobyl?

On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen reveals the bizarre story of Savannah and a missing nuclear bomb

Victor Hugo’s Secret Sketchbook

For the first time in 50 years, the French writer’s rarely seen works on paper—some echoing the ambient gloom of Les Misérables—go on view in London

Top of the Line

Algerian streets, Italian fountains, German tanks … The late New Yorker illustrator and cartoonist Saul Steinberg’s drawings are collected in a new edition of All in Line

Me and Tony Bourdain

At 35, I left my hard-won editor job to become Anthony Bourdain’s assistant. It was the best decision I’ve ever made

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Sucks to Sussex

From scathing reviews to memes, Netflix’s With Love, Meghan has only fueled more bullying toward Meghan Markle as viewers revel in hate-watching her show

Breaking Up with Facebook

Anarchy in the U.S.

Ahead of their reunion, British punk band the Sex Pistols recall the madness of their 1970s American tour—drugs, cowboys, and all

Harper Lee, Lost and Found

Eight short stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author, discovered after her death in 2016, are being published for the first time

Of Alps and an Apple

From La Scala, Riccardo Muti’s landmark revival of Rossini’s monumental farewell to opera

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a new history of the Irish famine, a survey of contemporary architecture, and a portrait of the Edwardian painter John Singer Sargent and his Jewish patrons

Hollywood Confidential

In order to evade racist Hollywood codes and immigration bans, Merle Oberon—the first Asian actress to receive an Oscar nomination—passed as white for almost 50 years

Sid Mashburn’s Guide to Atlanta

The menswear designer shares his favorite spots in his home city

King Charles’s Trump Card

“Sorry, chap, you’ve got to take one for the team”: the monarch announced that he is downgrading Trump’s state visit to a Pizza Express lunch with Prince Andrew

Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook