Who’s to Blame for the Biden Mess?
On this week’s podcast, Todd S. Purdum discusses how we got here—and what’s next
Better by Design
From postwar European churches to post-revolution Cuba, two new books chart the rise of midcentury modernism
The Troubles of Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The author of the best-selling Fleishman Is in Trouble has money issues, religious worries, and anxiety about her next novel. It’s not easy being “the female Philip Roth”
Chain Gang
Trump adds a condition for aspiring vice-presidential candidates
Ozempic Meets Its Match
From Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight to Emma Specter’s More, Please, fat-phobia and eating disorders are getting the literary treatment in this year’s Zeitgeisty nonfiction releases
Milwaukee’s Finest Boor
How can Republicans gathered in Wisconsin formally nominate Donald Trump with a straight face? Just watch them
FAMM Fatales
Europe’s first private museum dedicated solely to art made by women opens in Mougins, France, featuring works by Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, and Marina Abramović
Thomas Doherty
After playing cheeky bad boys in High Fidelity and Gossip Girl, the 29-year-old actor is taking on a much darker role in his first indie film, Dandelion
Lunch with David Duchovny
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the X-Files star shows host Bruce Bozzi his literary side and talks about getting into the podcast game
Trumping for Britain
Nigel Farage, the English far-right populist and friend of Trump, pauses from celebrating his recent election to Parliament to rail against the woke elite’s hold on … mathematics
You’re Only as Old as You Look
A new Tom Hanks film uses groundbreaking A.I. technology to transform the actor into his fresh-faced, 1980s self
Frida’s Missing Masterpiece
Frida Kahlo’s painting The Wounded Table vanished in 1955. The hunt for it continues
Rally the Troops
A Ukrainian journalist’s firsthand account of Russia’s invasion of his country
All You Need Is Loot
The market for Beatles memorabilia is valued in the billions and continues to climb. But will your kids care if you own John and Yoko’s Delft porcelain toilet?
In Bed with Marvin Gaye
In an unpublished interview—given months before he was shot dead 40 years ago—the Prince of Soul talked police brutality, European decency, and his explicit new single
A Very Deadly Year
Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Georges Simenon all published murderous masterpieces in the same year. Why?
Dream Time Alfresco
Way above 96th Street, Shakespeare’s midsummer madness in classical Harlem Renaissance style
