Lunch with Bette Midler
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, Bette Midler reveals to host Bruce Bozzi that, yes, even she gets nervous …
Till Kingdom Come
The Holy Roman Empire failed so you don’t have to. In a new book, a scion of the Habsburg family interprets lessons from one of Europe’s most powerful dynasties for the personal realm
Will a Victim’s Father Take Down the Idaho Killer?
On this week’s podcast, Howard Blum reveals how the father of one of the victims is pursuing his own investigation—and uncovering new facts
Photo Finish
More than 100 of Julia Margaret Cameron’s haunting portraits go on view for the first Parisian exhibition of her work in nearly 40 years
Twentieth-Century Woman
A new book collects 100 images taken by Lee Miller, the intrepid photographer, war correspondent, and Surrealist muse, played by Kate Winslet in an upcoming film
Terminal Hilarity
How three guys from the Milwaukee suburbs re-invented American comedy
The Devil’s in the Details
From Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God to the novels of Elena Ferrante—where has this insatiable appetite for all things Naples come from?
Julian Schnabel’s Cutting Edge
Despite commercial success and a body of work that now spans more than five decades, the artist is just as irritable and unimpressed as ever
Family (Mis)Fortunes
A Trump and a Kushner square off for the title of “World’s Worst Grandpa”
Dinner Party From Hell
It’s time for a second look at Thomas Adès’s loopy dance of death The Exterminating Angel
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss an audiobook murder mystery involving cellist prodigies, an intimate history of Manhattan’s Public Theater, and a globe-maker’s exploration of his craft
Searching the Webb
A new book about the jeweler David Webb reveals the inspirations behind the master’s modern designs
Shanti Fiennes
The British actress is taking on the role of Princess Diana in a film that imagines post-divorce Di on a carefree road trip through California
Rope-a-Dope
Who is the champion in Washington’s swampy sleaze-and-corruption arena?
Lost and Found
Ahead of his West End role in A Voyage Round My Father, Rupert Everett reflects on losing focus, renouncing Botox, and the value of self-censorship
A Piece of Paradise
A lost short story handwritten by the acclaimed author Truman Capote is published for the first time
An Elegy Wrapped in a Comedy
A new book chronicles the rise of Bruce Robinson’s Withnail & I from box-office failure to endlessly quotable classic
Funny Is His Business
Noam Dworman, owner of the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, has worked with all the greats—including a few you haven’t heard of yet
