The Little Film That Could
Despite a minimal budget and pandemic lockdowns, The Great Escaper and its octogenarian stars managed to make their way to the screen
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Texting acronyms for aging baby-boomers
The Who’s Who of Halloween
With spooky season in full swing, New Yorkers have strapped on their cat ears and begun their yearly—shall we say “haunting”—antics to be seen in the right spots … even if they’re in full disguise
“A Castro or Worse”
Patrice Lumumba won the Congo independence in 1960, but his suspected Soviet sympathies led to his overthrow. A new book reveals the man behind the myth—and the C.I.A.’s role in his murder
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books pile on the Halloween scaries with a mix of religious cults, international terrorism, and the lottery
How to Live to 100 (Or Not!)
On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David reveals whether Secrets of the Blue Zones is really all it promises
Back from the Dead
Rarely seen Egyptian manuscripts with religious writings, spells, and illustrations go on view at the Getty Villa
A Portable Feast
A new book pairs Dwight Garner’s complementary obsessions: reading and eating
Family Values
In a new book, a son pays homage to his mother, a muckraking investigative journalist
Moonlight
Arshile Gorky’s Charred Beloved I, “an abstraction of moonlight” going up for auction at Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale, evokes the poetry of his predecessors
The Magic of Marisol
A traveling retrospective of Marisol Escobar’s work highlights the onetime Warhol girl’s wit and humor
Hit and Run
When writers on the TV series Fauda pitched a storyline eerily similar to the recent terrorist invasion of Israel, the show’s creators dismissed it as unrealistic. Now the unthinkable has become a reality
A Raging Bull’s Fighting Words
Robert De Niro has a new baby and a celebrated new film—his 10th with Martin Scorsese—but what the acclaimed actor really wants to discuss is the crazy and absurd phenomenon of Donald Trump
Phony Business
J. D. Salinger refused to let his novels and stories be adapted for film and television. But that hasn’t stopped some directors
Cat-and-Mouse Game
It was never going to be easy adapting “Cat Person,” Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker short story, into a movie—even with Nicholas Braun starring
The Girl with the Gimlet Eye
New York writer Natasha Stagg translated her exacting cultural critiques into work for big brands. Her latest book grapples with questions about social media, identity, and authenticity in our increasingly online world
Ludovic Nkoth
One year after moving to Paris, the 28-year-old artist, known for expressive portraits that center on Blackness, is collaborating with some of France’s most prestigious institutions
Lunch with Irving Azoff
Music’s boldest executive, who has managed everyone from the Eagles to Nicki Minaj, joins host Bruce Bozzi for a power lunch on this week’s episode of Table for Two
