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From Hussar to Bazaar

An exhibition in Philadelphia honors the graphic designer Alexey Brodovitch, who went from serving in a Russian hussar regiment to being art director at Harper’s Bazaar, where he mentored photographers such as Irving Penn

Paapa Essiedu

The Ghanaian-British actor is bringing his role in the critically acclaimed revival of The Effect from London to New York City

Drumming Up Sympathy

A new biography of rock legend Jim Gordon reveals how the music scene ignored his mental health struggles, then abandoned him when he snapped

The Forgotten Master

A Long Day’s Journey into Night

The Italian filmmaker behind Gomorrah and Pinocchio adapts immigrants’ real-life horror stories for the screen in his Oscar-nominated new film

Election-Year Anxiety?

A veteran advice columnist fields questions—and comments—from a few concerned citizens

Chronicle of an Invasion Foretold

The Wellness Madness

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is sick of wellness. What he wants is more badness, malice, and depravity

Wham, Bam, Thank You Yam

Talking to the Hand

Fifteen years after Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth’s new play is a rich and masterful portrait of a divided family of women

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Around the World and Back Again

From tenement life to royal weddings to war’s front lines, Bert Hardy captured it all. A new exhibition in London collects the British photojournalist’s best work

The Amazing Race

Bobi Wine’s journey from pop star to presidential candidate dominated headlines in Uganda. Now, thanks to an Oscar-nominated documentary, the conversation continues around the world

Why Do Today’s Leading Men Dress Like Rent Boys?

On this week’s podcast, George Hahn has a few choice words for the death of Hollywood style

Do It Like the French Do!

Fresh from playing Coco Chanel in The New Look, Juliet Binoche takes on the role of the live-in cook of a celebrated gourmand in The Taste of Things

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Romantasy Addicts

It’s unadulterated escapism. It’s junk food for the mind. Suddenly, sales of fiction classed as both fantasy and romance are booming

Feeding Frenzy

Post-Putin, Tucker Carlson interviews Jaws, the shark

Hollywood Lights

A new exhibition in Washington, D.C., displays photographs by George Hurrell, who captured everyone from Marlene Dietrich to Greta Garbo to Clark Gable

Lucas Zelnick

After a brief stint as a corporate strategist, the young comedian started a stand-up club in Manhattan

Marta Has Left the Building

In Death Valley Junction, a theater like no other

Guiding Spirit

To write about Carson McCullers, the great American novelist, a biographer briefly lived in her childhood home

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

Stones on the Beach

Eighteen years ago in Rio, the Rolling Stones played to the largest audience ever assembled for a rock concert. Their creative director recalls the madness