Putting It Together
How do you complete a Stephen Sondheim musical without Stephen Sondheim? Call for Jonathan Tunick
The New Dresden
More than 75 years after W.W. II reduced 90 percent of the city center to rubble, a sprawling art collection is spearheading Dresden’s rise from the ashes
Where Ballet and Fashion Collide
Ahead of the New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala, a new book pays homage to the fabulous collaborations between choreographers and designers including Carolina Herrera, Virgil Abloh, and Anna Sui, with photographs by Pari Dukovic
What Is Love?
Whether on Hitler’s evil, Shakespeare’s genius, or the nature of love, Ron Rosenbaum resists the lure of easy answers
Blow, Winds, and Crack Your Cheeks! Rage! Blow!
From Stratford, Ontario, a King Lear of symphonic power
Dress Code
A new history of drag in Britain reveals the little-known mainstream popularity of cross-dressing in British culture, even during the Victorian era
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a history of crime as told through 100 objects, a look at Greta Garbo’s life off-screen, and a vivid sketch of daily life during the Roman Empire’s golden age
Better by Design
A new book offers a survey of the U.S. Embassies built during the Cold War, designed by some of the world’s most celebrated architects, including Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, and Edward Durell Stone
Assignment: Sinatra
Part IV
Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject
Daddy Issues
The Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci biographer Walter Isaacson reveals what drew him to Elon Musk—and how a rare conversation with Musk’s father shed light on the billionaire entrepreneur’s erratic (to put it lightly) behavior
Tom Wolfe’s Secret Weapon
On this week’s podcast, Peter Stevenson reveals how the writer’s wife secretly reported on New York’s social elite
Packed House
After a decade of delays, the brand-new Perelman Performing Arts Center will finally host actors, dancers, and artists in Manhattan’s financial district
Kelly Beeman
The painter and illustrator was convinced art couldn’t be a full-time job. But when Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson came across her drawings on Instagram, overnight success followed
Watts’s Stacks
The Rolling Stones drummer was a passionate collector of first editions and jazz ephemera
Under the Tuscan (and Umbrian) Sun
A road trip around the homes, archives, and foundations of the artists of central Italy, and those who made their name there, from Beverly Pepper to Alberto Burri to Niki de Saint Phalle
Lights, Camera, Party
To make the theatrical experience fun again, Lucas King Weber and Keith Herron, two twentysomething cinephiles, are throwing parties at AMC screenings in Manhattan
From North Korea with Love
Overheard snippets of conversation between Vladimir Putin and his guest, Kim Jong Un
The Best of the Rest
Its core titles are rarely out of the U.K. Top 5, and its chattiest, The Rest Is Football, debuted at No. 1. How did Britain’s foremost soccer star, Gary Lineker, quietly build a podcast empire?
