Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a chronicle of rebuilding the World Trade Center, an ode to the Bronx, a look at Venice’s foremost geographer, and a Tchaikovsky biography
False Front
During World War II, Colonel Dudley Clarke reinvented military deception by hoodwinking the Nazis with nonexistent troops
Wong Kar-wai’s Guide to Hong Kong
The film director and screenwriter shares his favorite spots in his home city
Taylor-Made Bump
Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, and Paramore have all seen their profiles—and sales—rocket after being support acts on Swift’s record-breaking “Eras Tour”
The Ingmar Bergman of Porn
Gerard Damiano Sr. made the most popular porn film of all time—Deep Throat—but he always longed to be taken seriously as an auteur
New Twists in the Idaho Student-Murders Case
On this week’s podcast, Howard Blum reveals how the F.B.I. may have compromised evidence
Face Value
At the turn of the 20th century, American women wouldn’t touch blush or lipstick. Then, with her Upper East Side salon, Elizabeth Arden made makeup fashionable
Home Sweet Stockholm
A tour of the artistic homes dotting Sweden’s capital, from the Pippi Longstocking author’s apartment to sculptor Carl Milles’s sprawling complex
All Wisconsin’s a Stage
While often overlooked, the Midwestern state is home to some of America’s finest theater
Life Lessons from My So-Called Life
The groundbreaking 90s drama ran for only one season 30 years ago—but made stars of Claire Danes and Jared Leto and continues to delight
In the Field with Robert Capa
A new book collects the photojournalist’s images of major 20th-century events, from the D-day landings, in France, to the arrival of immigrants in the newly established Israel
Jen Silverman
The playwright makes their Broadway debut with The Roommate, starring Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone
You Didn’t Have to be There
What luck that the mic was live for Keith Jarrett’s catastrophic gig in Cologne a half century ago
In the Wings
After funding was cut for the Federal Theatre Project, hundreds of scripts, props, and costumes went missing. Three decades later, two professors and a government worker saved them
