The Mother of Invention
A new biography of Margaret Cavendish reveals how the 17th-century writer and philosopher treated her groundbreaking work like her child
Chez Karl
A look inside the many homes of Karl Lagerfeld, from Paris to Rome, Biarritz to Lake Champlain
Roman Halaby
The Lebanese designer Gilbert Halaby made a name for himself in Rome with a charming jewelry-and-handbag atelier. Thirty years on, he’s also taken up his lifelong passion of painting
California Cool
A retrospective at the Palm Springs Art Museum honors the legacy of the midcentury architect Albert Frey
What Is Angelina Jolie Hiding?
On this week’s podcast, Dana Brown reveals how to sneak into her tightly guarded NoHo outpost
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books range from murder in Edith Wharton’s New York to the notorious 2003 Alperton Angels cult case
Jodie Foster’s Coming of Age
The actress looks back at the time a shooter attempted to assassinate President Reagan on her behalf—and discusses the unexpected perks of being an older woman in Hollywood
A Less Perfect Union
Flashbacks to the Buckley–Vidal smackdowns that changed our media landscape forever
Scaling “Mount Proust”
After reading all 3,200 pages of In Search of Lost Time, one editor explains what critics—including Cormac McCarthy—got wrong about the masterpiece
Stories of Survival
A journalist chronicles present-day Lebanon’s turbulence—from the 2020 port explosion to its current financial crisis—from the perspective of women
Amicus Curious
Making a killing in the poetry biz to pursue the magic of briefs and appellate courts
Look Again
The vice-chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art at Christie’s New York recommends the 10 must-see paintings in the Met’s newly reopened European-art galleries
Garry Winogrand in Color
A new book collects rarely seen color work by the master of postwar American street photography, from the bustling byways of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk
Phone Rage
In a new column, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is infuriated, incensed, and enraged by the world around him—particularly his new phone service
Julia Roberts and Baroness Bra
Patrick Kidd reveals how Michelle Mone used the actress’s cleavage to carry her from Dickensian poverty to the House of Lords and, now, scandal
Shock and Awe
The provocative, World War II–era paintings of Ben Shahn are on view in a sweeping retrospective
Keeping Up with the Hösses
Based on a Martin Amis novel, The Zone of Interest is told from the perspective of an Auschwitz commandant and his family
