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
The 20th Century’s Enfant Terrible
From bare-bottomed sailors to opium-smoking lovers, a new Jean Cocteau exhibition in Venice—the French artist’s first major retrospective in Italy—brings together some of his most risqué works
Kim Kardashian Gets Sued over Her (Alleged) Fakes
On this week’s podcast, Dan Rubinstein reveals why the influencer finds herself the subject of a strange lawsuit
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
What Woody Allen Told Me
On this week’s podcast, Sam Wasson takes us inside his conversation with the writer-director
Murder, They Wrote
The settings for this month’s best mystery books range from the Las Vegas underworld to cosseted suburban London
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
Divided We Fail
Alex Garland’s Civil War hurtles through the ravaging violence and chilling anomie of a Disunited States
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
“All the Romance of Filmmaking Is Gone”
Woody Allen on Paris, cancel culture, retirement, and “the whole mortality question”
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
Katana and Crumpets
The new hit TV mini-series Shōgun has re-ignited interest in the rollicking life of the Englishman William Adams, Japan’s first foreign samurai
A Publisher of One’s Own
For 25 years, Persephone Books has been turning the works of forgotten female writers into unexpected best-sellers