Whiz Syd
A new documentary traces Syd Barrett’s enigmatic life, from co-founding Pink Floyd to dropping out of the music industry entirely
School for Scoundrels
Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling
The Riling Class
Before the British Invasion, there was the satire boom. Its ground zero was a grotty strip joint turned nightclub in Soho that Peter Cook re-christened “the Establishment”
Nobels “R” Us
By identifying a gap in the U.K. book market, Jacques Testard turned his kitchen-table publisher into a prizewinning literary powerhouse
The C-Spot
Nothing validates the dictum that the U.S. and the U.K. are “two nations divided by a common language” quite like this single, four-letter word
The New Tribes of London
The traditional types—the Hampstead Intellectual, the Chelsea Hooray, the Shoreditch Hipster—have bitten the dust. Meet the new clichés populating the city’s streets
From Tree to Tree
The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family
Pauline Boty, Lost and Found
A long-overlooked member of the British Pop-art movement, and one of its few women, gets her due in a new biography
Pasolini’s Inferno
A fellow persecuted Italian intellectual revisits the little-remembered trials and tribulations that the writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini withstood in the name of his art—up until the end
Hollywood’s Conundrum
What will happen to the new World War II films as war rages in the Middle East?
Can You Take Me Back?
Nearly 30 years after Yoko Ono handed Paul McCartney a fuzzy John Lennon demo titled “Now and Then,” the Beatles have their last-ever song, courtesy of Peter Jackson and A.I.—and it’s incredible
True Grit
Over a six-decade career, Jean–Pierre Laffont, the photojournalist who will receive the French Legion of Honor this month, chronicled everything from street scenes to social movements
On the Air
An exclusive excerpt from UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There revisits the American public’s close encounter … with Orson Welles
Get the Money, Get the Power
In 1983, critics panned Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone’s remake of Scarface. A decade later it became a cult hit, thanks to the hip-hop community
Why Millennials and Gen Z–ers Are Fighting
On this week’s podcast, Kat Rosenfield discusses why the TikTok generation sees things very differently
Lunch with John Stamos
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Full House actor joins host Bruce Bozzi to talk about learning drums from Sammy Davis Jr., imitating John Travolta’s walk, and picking a title for his new memoir
Pieced Together
In Switzerland, an exhibition of Deborah Turbeville’s collages gives the model turned artist her long-overdue recognition
Hannah Woo
The young Korean artist has found her niche making intricate works out of fabric
