Have You Flown the Britney Spears of Airlines?
On this week’s podcast, Mark Ellwood takes us inside the hot mess formerly known as British Airways
The Long Good-Bye
After 12 seasons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s mostly improvised juggernaut and HBO’s longest-running comedy, comes to an end. Well, probably …
The Vacation of the Future
Photography, painting, writing—creative retreats bring the potential for a life change, along with delicious food and beautiful lodgings
Anatomy of a Hypochondriac
Red Bull Theater revives the dying Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid
A St. Swithin’s Day Surprise
The author behind One Day details how fatherhood and getting older inspired his best-seller, which he’s helped turn into a Netflix series
A Voice in the Wilderness
A look at Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, the 20th-century Brazilian general, pacifist, and Amazonian explorer
Slow Burner
Jack Lowden and Gary Oldman steal the show in Slow Horses, the sleeper hit that captures the mundanity and pettiness, not the glamour, of M.I.5
Flyboys
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’s new Apple+ series, about the gallant Americans who flew Flying Fortresses over Germany, is a big-budget masterpiece. A historian weighs in
The True Story Behind Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
On this week’s podcast, Sam Kashner reveals why the writer “built an atomic bomb” that destroyed his life
The Princess and the Pie Shop
Sutton Foster bounces from the Encores! Once upon a Mattress straight to Broadway’s hit revival of Sweeney Todd
Hot Coals
The German-British artist Frank Auerbach’s charcoal portraits go on show in London
The Other Side
This year’s Oscar favorite, Jonathan Glazer’s radical re-invention of the Holocaust film, The Zone of Interest, is told from the point of view of the perpetrators
One Thing Ledes to Another
The longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin discusses his early years in journalism, humor in the Internet era, and his new essay collection, The Lede
The Cuteness Curse
There’s a thin line between cuddly and creepy, according to a new exhibition at Somerset House in London
Magnum Opus
A new book celebrates the history and legacy of the Magnum Photos cooperative with work by Eve Arnold, Werner Bischof, René Burri, Martin Parr, and Alessandra Sanguinetti
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a biography of a pioneering classicist, a reissued novel about a secret World War II mission, and an account of the Russian Civil War
