Man’s Best Friends
For his entire career, Michael Frayn avoided writing about people he knew. His new book, written at 89, is about 13 of his closest friends
From The Office to the Lab
Lee Eisenberg knows funny. But he and his wife, Emily Jane Fox, learned a lot working together on Lessons in Chemistry
My Name Is Barbra’s Index
Streisand refused to give readers any shortcuts to her 992-page memoir, so we did it for you
Making Up for Lost Time
After a decade-long wait, a follow-up to the best-selling debut thriller I Am Pilgrim is here
A Head for Business, a Body for Sin
From Virginia Woolf to Carolee Schneemann, a new book explores the role of the female body in art
Lunch with Nicole Avant
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, host Bruce Bozzi is joined by the former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas to talk about family, grief, and growing up in Hollywood
Stanley Kubrick’s Waterloo
Having just tackled the end of the world and the mysteries of the universe, the obsessive director set his sights on Napoleon. Tens of thousands of index cards later, he waved the white flag
Nia DaCosta
With The Marvels, 34-year-old Nia DaCosta is now the youngest director of a Marvel movie, and the first Black woman to have a go at the franchise
Calder on Their Minds
A Seattle power-collector couple’s love for the great American artist of suspended sculptures reaches new heights at the Seattle Art Museum
Are You in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir?
On this week’s podcast, George Kalogerakis reveals how we created the Streisand Index
Your Grandmother’s Oklahoma!
“Better than the original!” raved Mary Rodgers, the composer’s daughter
Across the Jillyverse
Publishing her 18th novel at 86 years old, novelist Jilly Cooper is as prolific—and ready to talk about sex—as ever
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
Far from the Madding Hive Mind
Inside the UnHerd Club, London’s liveliest—and most controversial—new literary salon
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
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
