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 …
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
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
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
Murder, They Wrote
This month, a sterling trifecta of books by men who don’t underestimate a woman with a badge
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
Rachel Kaly
The New York– and Los Angeles–based stand-up comedian turns her mental illnesses into jokes
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
Flyboys
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’s new Apple+ series, about the gallant Americans who flew Flying Fortresses over Germany, is a big-budget masterpiece. A historian weighs in
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
One Thing Ledes to Another
The longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin discusses his early years in journalism, humor in the Internet era, and his new essay collection, The Lede
The True Story Behind Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
On this week’s podcast, Sam Kashner reveals why the writer “built an atomic bomb” that destroyed his life
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
Hot Coals
The German-British artist Frank Auerbach’s charcoal portraits go on show in London
