Did Jeffrey Epstein Blackmail a Wall Street Titan?
On this week’s podcast, Johanna Berkman shares shocking details behind Leon Black’s deep financial ties to the convicted sex offender
The Indie Revolution
In the British book world, risk-averse legacy publishers are losing all the top literary prizes to small, experimental publishing houses
Logging On
To write about three troubled girls’ deaths, a journalist looked at their online lives. Through her research, she found the limits of digital sleuthing
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a look at a 1960s artistic epicenter, the saga of two men rowing across the Atlantic, and a fresh take on the 1968 presidential election
Magical Thinking
A retrospective of Remedios Varo’s mystical paintings puts the spotlight on the long-overlooked Surrealist
Stealing God’s Stuff
He is best remembered as the author of the children’s classics Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. But is E. B. White also the forgotten prophet of our nuclear doom?
Changing His Tune
For decades, Jeff Goldblum has been a beloved actor and a sex symbol. Now, at age 70, he’s also becoming a jazz pianist
Highway to Nowhere
In an interview, the writers David Samuels and Walter Kirn discuss County Highway, a new, print-only broadsheet that bills itself as “a magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper”
When Amusement Reigned
The pavilions and garden follies of pre-revolutionary France are collected in a charming new coffee-table book
Inside the Strategy to Free the Idaho-Murders Suspect
On this week’s episode, Howard Blum reveals the audacious plan to win an acquittal
Lunch with Sarah Jessica Parker
On this week’s Table for Two, host Bruce Bozzi escapes the city heat on Long Island with the And Just Like That… actress
Dutchman in Dry Dock
Asmik Grigorian redeems Bayreuth’s non-seaworthy Der Fliegende Holländer
Facing the Music
A look back at the early days of the recording industry, before the advent of microphones and volume control
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a sprawling anthology of the true-crime genre, a look at Teddy Roosevelt’s longest friendship, and a compact history of music
The Secret History
Jackie O spent the years after her husband’s assassination trying to keep out of the public eye. Years later, her job as a book editor encouraged her to see the value in revealing private people’s secrets
The Inside Story on the Prince Who Got Away with Murder
On this week’s podcast, the director of a new documentary reveals how she caught a killer
