A Lasting Impression
Drawings and watercolors on paper by Impressionists ranging from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec go on view in London
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
Asher Liftin
The 24-year-old art-world darling, whose fans include David Geffen, stages his first solo show in New York City
Acronyms for Adults Only
How to keep up with the texting shorthand your elders use to confound you
Murder, They Wrote
Long-cold cases get hot again in the season’s best mystery books—and oldie-but-goodie TV dramas
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
Hollywood Beginning
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel captures the actor’s mindset so incisively that Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps are early fans
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
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
Making Up for Lost Time
After a decade-long wait, a follow-up to the best-selling debut thriller I Am Pilgrim is here
Are You in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir?
On this week’s podcast, George Kalogerakis reveals how we created the Streisand Index
Nia DaCosta
With The Marvels, 34-year-old Nia DaCosta is now the youngest director of a Marvel movie, and the first Black woman to have a go at the franchise
My Name Is Barbra’s Index
Streisand refused to give readers any shortcuts to her 992-page memoir, so we did it for you
A Head for Business, a Body for Sin
From Virginia Woolf to Carolee Schneemann, a new book explores the role of the female body in art
From The Office to the Lab
Lee Eisenberg knows funny. But he and his wife, Emily Jane Fox, learned a lot working together on Lessons in Chemistry
