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Mandatory Reporting

Aindrea Emelife

One of the Venice Biennale’s youngest-ever curators is bringing Nigerian art to the masses

Russia, China, and Us

High Life, Low Life

In his new book, the photographer Dafydd Jones captures a bygone New York, an era of new and old money, La Grenouille and Le Cirque

Long Live La Latteria

Over six decades, the couple behind this quaint Milanese spot served spaghetti al limone to Kennedys, Agnellis, artists, and locals alike

Playing Hardball

Separating the man from the myth of Pete Rose, one of baseball’s most fabled—and controversial—stars

French Dispatch

Lunch with Michael Mann

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Ferrari director and action-film master discusses the importance of surrounding oneself with strong characters, writing Heat 2, and how Miami Vice defined a decade

Divided We Fail

Alex Garland’s Civil War hurtles through the ravaging violence and chilling anomie of a Disunited States

A Place in the Sun

Eighteen months and 35,000 sheets of gold leaf later, Louis XIV’s prized Apollo Fountain sculpture returns to Versailles in a sparkling restoration

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook

What Woody Allen Told Me

On this week’s podcast, Sam Wasson takes us inside his conversation with the writer-director

“All the Romance of Filmmaking Is Gone”

Woody Allen on Paris, cancel culture, retirement, and “the whole mortality question”

Writing to Survive

Murder, They Wrote

The settings for this month’s best mystery books range from the Las Vegas underworld to cosseted suburban London

Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Here? Not One?

No, no, not one in Sasha Regan’s well-traveled all-male The Pirates of Penzance

Renaissance Women

A new book spotlights four forgotten female writers who were contemporaries of Shakespeare’s but cut out of history

Radio Control

Flappers to the Wings!

The Great Gatsby made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s name, but the Broadway play of his book made him rich. A copy of the long-lost script has finally been found

New Kid on the Great White Way

The longtime Public Theater producer Mandy Hackett sets her sights on Broadway with the Alicia Keys–inspired musical, Hell’s Kitchen

Godsmacked

Weeding out the Garden of Eden

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook