The Royal Treatment
From The Crown to Love Story, Hollywood’s enduring fascination with the Windsors and the Kennedys has cemented their mythos for the next generation—but at what cost?
Nikki Hill and Claire Wadsworth’s Guide to Joshua Tree
The life and business partners behind the restaurant La Copine share their go-to spots in the High Desert
Fire Island Time
A new coffee-table book looks beyond the island’s reputation as a queer summer utopia, revealing it, for the first time, as a creative hub that influenced artists from Richard Avedon to Wolfgang Tillmans
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mysteries: James Comey’s new espionage thriller and the latest installment in Anthony Horowitz’s meta-mystery series
The Duke Hunter
Andrew Lownie’s biography of the Yorks helped bring down the former Prince Andrew. With new allegations in the forthcoming U.S. paperback, the scourge of the royals is still in hot pursuit
Requiem for a Dreamscape
A retrospective in Germany honors Verner Panton, the Danish designer who transformed the spirit of American counterculture into psychedelic interiors blending color, sensuality, and fun
Hail, Caesar!
Roddy McDowall came to fame with How Green Was My Valley and starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, but The Planet of the Apes is what cemented his legacy
The Spammer Becomes the Spammee
After receiving one too many fake-book-club scams, I clicked reply
Bob Colacello’s Guide to Long Island
The writer and art-world fixture shares his go-to spots around Southampton
Winston Churchill’s Alter Ego
An exhibition in London re-introduces Churchill as a painter—a hobby he took up in the summer of 1915, amidst the depressive slump that followed his ousting from the Admiralty
Mayday!
Cambridge’s most infamous party girl tips her hat to Dafydd Jones, the society photographer whose latest book captures more than 40 years of the school’s hedonistic May Balls
Bella Maclean
The 28-year-old star of Rivals was shocked to land the lead role in the Jilly Cooper adaptation—but she’s still along for the (very sexy) ride in the show’s second season
Steve Jobs’s Lost Decade
After being forced out of Apple in 1985, its founder spent 12 years running a floundering start-up. A new book claims this exile set the stage for Silicon Valley’s greatest comeback story
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a history of the North Korean personality cult, a Nobel laureate’s memoir of growing up in Communist Romania, and new essays by David Sedaris
Alexandre Gabriel’s Guide to São Paulo
The co-director of the Brazilian gallery Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel shares his go-to spots in the city he calls home
I Worked for the Real Wizard of the Kremlin
In early-aughts Moscow, Vladislav Surkov educated me on the finer points of “pop propaganda.” Now he’s the inspiration for Olivier Assayas’s new film
Form over Function
A new exhibition in Brooklyn showcases 140 garments by the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, whose work blurs the line between fashion and sculpture
Once upon a Time in Cannes
Forty years ago, Muammar al-Qaddafi threatened to blow up the Cannes Film Festival. The author attended anyway, with Griffin Dunne—and the rest is history
