What the Hell Is Gwyneth Cooking Up Now?
On this week’s podcast, Jensen Davis taste-tests Goop Kitchen
From the Metropol Hotel to Hollywood
In an interview, Amor Towles discusses adapting A Gentleman in Moscow for the screen and the inspiration behind his newest book, Table for Two
Against the Grain
The Museum of Modern Art exhibits New York’s first-ever retrospective on Käthe Kollwitz, one of history’s greatest graphic artists—and one of its most outspoken pacifists
Around the World with Steve McCurry
Refugee camps in Pakistan, civil wars in Cambodia, religious ceremonies in India … A new book collects more than 100 images by the American photojournalist
The Sky’s the Limit
From the title role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Omar, the tenor Jamez McCorkle pivots to godhood
Finding Gaudí
How the playful details of Antoni Gaudí’s architecture turned one critic into an admirer
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
Kahlo Incorporated
How did Frida Kahlo go from being a little-known artist to a feminist icon to a global brand?
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
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
Lunch with Matt Bomer
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, Hollywood’s “most handsome man” discusses getting his start in a Chuck Norris movie, auditioning for The All New Mickey Mouse Club, and much more …
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
Randy Andy Goes Postal
The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie
Spring Breakers
A new book of photographs evokes the sun-and-booze-soaked days of British holidayers in southern Spain during the 60s and beyond
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
In A Gentleman in Moscow, the actress beguiles the hero, played by her real-life husband, Ewan McGregor
Brancusi’s Magnum Opus
Bronze, wood, marble, stone … the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, presents the sculptor’s largest retrospective since 1995
Three Faces of Lise
The Norwegian soprano of the hour explores the heroines of Richard Strauss
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 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
