Doomsday Goals
A pessimist prepares for a job interview
Absolutely Normal Chaos
Is Ridley Scott the bluntest man in the movie business? On the press tour for Napoleon, the director swears, shouts, and says whatever comes to mind
Sight Unseen
Alice Mason was a celebrated hostess and New York’s real-estate agent to the elite, but while she was showing lavish apartments to clients like Marilyn Monroe, she was hiding a family secret
Silent Night, Holy Night
The John Adams Nativity oratorio El Niño, distilled
The Comeback King
How a housewife from Edinburgh solved one of the great mysteries of English history—and cleared King Richard III’s name
Hollywood Beginning
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel captures the actor’s mindset so incisively that Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps are early fans
Acronyms for Adults Only
How to keep up with the texting shorthand your elders use to confound you
We All Make Mystiques
The unforgettable night in New York when Jackie Kennedy watched as opera’s greatest diva sang Tosca and bungled the high C
Inside the Night Jackie Kennedy Stared Down Onassis’s Mistress
On this week’s podcast, John Mauceri discusses an evening—and two divas—he’ll never forget
Murder, They Wrote
Long-cold cases get hot again in the season’s best mystery books—and oldie-but-goodie TV dramas
Emperor of the New Order
How a promising young director gave up a comfortable life in Hollywood—and gained true creative freedom for a new generation of filmmakers. An exclusive excerpt from The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
Wave to the Camera
A new book of photos by the big kahuna of surfing photography, Jimmy Metyko, captures early-80s Southern California in all its Point Break glory
Finding Albert Ballin
How a German-Jewish businessman helped make possible the emigration of 1.5 million Jews from Eastern Europe—then largely disappeared from history
A Lasting Impression
Drawings and watercolors on paper by Impressionists ranging from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec go on view in London
Asher Liftin
The 24-year-old art-world darling, whose fans include David Geffen, stages his first solo show in New York City
Man’s Best Friends
For his entire career, Michael Frayn avoided writing about people he knew. His new book, written at 89, is about 13 of his closest friends
