Block Head
Nathan Sawaya left his Wall Street law firm to play with Lego. Now his painstaking brick creations sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars
Underworld Toff
He broke out in The White Lotus, and now he’s the lead on Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. There’s also Bond chatter—but Theo James isn’t buying it
Randy Andy Goes Postal
The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie
All That Is Solid Melts into Theory
How did a once obscure academic notion called “gender identity” triumph over material reality? Credit—or blame—Judith Butler
Who’s Killing the Great Languages of Europe?
On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino reports on why—from Italy to Germany to France—English is now on everyone’s tongue
Three Faces of Lise
The Norwegian soprano of the hour explores the heroines of Richard Strauss
A Touch of Smut
Wayne Koestenbaum has been writing seriously salacious poetry for decades. A new collection about New York and its denizens gets down and dirty
Reaching for the Starman
How a stylist went from cutting David Bowie’s mother’s hair to joining the rockstar’s rollicking Ziggy Stardust tour
A Mission from God
How an epic friendship born out of quaaludes, comedy, and a shared love of R&B paved the way for The Blues Brothers
Introducing the Vermont Country Store’s New Adult Section
Where kinky meets crunchy
The Last Angry Man
Rex Reed is one of a dying breed—the pugnacious, no-holds-barred movie critic beholden to neither publicist nor star
A Window in His Heart
Alex Gibney’s new documentary chronicles Paul Simon’s course from voice of a generation to aging performer who’s not ready to hang up his guitar
Princess Diana’s Brother Lived His Own Special Hell
On this week’s podcast, Pico Iyer discusses Charles Spencer’s new book, A Very Private School
Photography’s Shooting Star
Exhibitions in London and New York honor the prodigious photographer who left behind a timeless body of work following her death, at just 22
Anthony Boyle
The Irish actor perfected a Southern drawl to play John Wilkes Booth in Apple TV+’s new thriller
Murder, They Wrote
Revenge—served hot, cold, and everywhere in between—dominates this month’s new mystery books
A Match Made in Design Heaven
Heidi Weber, the Swiss furniture gallerist, believed in Le Corbusier’s vision more than anyone. Together, they formed an exceptional partnership
Plot Twist
Six years after his blockbuster debut thriller—and a scandal about his credibility—A. J. Finn publishes his much-anticipated follow-up novel
