Oedipus Flex
Elizabeth Hurley’s erotic thriller—written and directed by her 22-year-old son—is one for the Freudians
The Afterlife of the Bauhaus
An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism
Station Havens
A new book offers a dazzling tour of 20th- and 21st-century railway architecture, from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof to Chengdu’s Line 9
O.K., Groomer
A reporter’s dispatch from the trenches of the gender-and-sexuality wars in schools across the U.S. portends a perilous future for L.G.B.T.Q. teens
Soaringly Sozzled Onstage
Withnail and I is one of the most beloved—and bibulous—British films of all time. But can this bucolic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas be properly adapted into a play?
Single-Mother’s Day
World War II left my mother a widow. But I didn’t have to go looking for a father figure. I had Irma
Sex and the A.I. Girl
On this week’s podcast, Flora Gill reveals why so many people are having affairs with digital companions
There Will Be Bloods
How the pioneering American dynasty both witnessed and shaped the creation of the United States
Iké Udé’s Guide to Lagos
From beach clubs to hidden art hubs, the Nigerian-American photographer and performer shares his go-to’s in his native city
Who’s Afraid of the Internet Novel?
The latest wave of fictions attempting to capture life online is more damaged and dissociative than ever before
Taking Orders
Nothing prepared a Hacks co-creator for Hollywood quite like working as a waitress
Paul, John, George, Ringo, and Me
My movie Let It Be chronicled the Beatles’ last concert—and got lost in the wake of their breakup. Now it’s returning to screens
Inside the Crime That Scandalized New York’s Bluebloods
On this week’s podcast, Michael Gross takes a new look at the conviction of Brooke Astor’s son for stealing millions from her
Lunch with Jeff Goldblum
The actor and jazz musician extols the virtues of having a life outside of Hollywood and praises good luck on this week’s episode of Table for Two
A Ballet with a Twist
Cathy Marston premieres Atonement, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel and her first creation as the new director of Ballett Zürich
The Wife That History Forgot
A new discovery sheds fresh light on Alice Hathaway Lee, Theodore Roosevelt’s first love, who was largely written off as inconsequential in the president’s life
The Fall of the House of Astor (Revisited)
A posthumous memoir from the son of New York society’s departed queen offers a self-serving perspective on an infamous scandal
Noem Chompski
Other potential Trump vice-presidential picks now that Kristi Noem has shot herself in the foot
Baby Reindeer Games
The hit Netflix show about stalking has bled into real life as social-media sleuths hound—and threaten—the actual people the story is based on
The Secret Life of Jimmy Nelson
A new book collects the former advertising executive turned intrepid photographer’s shots of Indigenous peoples from Siberia to Nepal to Kenya