Comeback King
Two new biographies of King Charles mark a return to good old-fashioned royal journalism
Spin Doctor
How libertarians’ efforts to deregulate the health-care system has given rise to dubious doctors with dangerous medical advice
To Catch a Mona Lisa Thief
How Picasso got framed for stealing Leonardo’s masterpiece
Burning Love
A dating guide to Dante’s second circle of hell
The Long Good-Bye
After 12 seasons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s mostly improvised juggernaut and HBO’s longest-running comedy, comes to an end. Well, probably …
Rachel Kaly
The New York– and Los Angeles–based stand-up comedian turns her mental illnesses into jokes
Stanislavsky’s Method
Performed in Paris and set in America, Tony Award winner Richard Nelson’s new play reimagines a day on tour with Konstantin Stanislavsky’s Russian theater troupe
The Vacation of the Future
Photography, painting, writing—creative retreats bring the potential for a life change, along with delicious food and beautiful lodgings
Murder, They Wrote
This month, a sterling trifecta of books by men who don’t underestimate a woman with a badge
Have You Flown the Britney Spears of Airlines?
On this week’s podcast, Mark Ellwood takes us inside the hot mess formerly known as British Airways
Eternally Revolutionary
A new exhibition honors the late Italian photographer and activist Tina Modotti, who crossed paths with everyone from Pablo Neruda to Frida Kahlo
Anatomy of a Hypochondriac
Red Bull Theater revives the dying Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid
A Voice in the Wilderness
A look at Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, the 20th-century Brazilian general, pacifist, and Amazonian explorer
A St. Swithin’s Day Surprise
The author behind One Day details how fatherhood and getting older inspired his best-seller, which he’s helped turn into a Netflix series
The Other Side
This year’s Oscar favorite, Jonathan Glazer’s radical re-invention of the Holocaust film, The Zone of Interest, is told from the point of view of the perpetrators
Slow Burner
Jack Lowden and Gary Oldman steal the show in Slow Horses, the sleeper hit that captures the mundanity and pettiness, not the glamour, of M.I.5
The Princess and the Pie Shop
Sutton Foster bounces from the Encores! Once upon a Mattress straight to Broadway’s hit revival of Sweeney Todd
The Cuteness Curse
There’s a thin line between cuddly and creepy, according to a new exhibition at Somerset House in London
