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
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
No Exit
A great female auteur makes a bold humanist statement in Green Border
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?
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mysteries feature aging sleuths, from the latest in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series to a new Agatha Christie Poirot book. Plus: the best TV shows to go with them
A Piece of Paradise
A lost short story handwritten by the acclaimed author Truman Capote is published for the first time
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
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
Searching the Webb
A new book about the jeweler David Webb reveals the inspirations behind the master’s modern designs
Heaven on Wheels
A new book offers a dazzling survey of the most exceptional cars ever designed, from a Corvette Sting Ray to an Aston Martin Valkyrie, to a BMW Isetta micro-car
Is This the Woman Who Could (Should?) Replace Biden?
On this week’s podcast, Peter Osnos discusses why a 52-year-old from Michigan just might have what it takes
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss an account of Times Square’s evolution, a memoir from a viral comedian, and the harrowing story of a woman kidnapped by a drug cartel
Behind Enemy Lines
A look at the mysterious story of journalist Ernie Pyle’s death during the U.S. Army’s invasion of a Japanese island
Where Have You Been All My Life?
In their 80s, Riccardo Muti and Philip Glass have just started making music together
Thick as Thieves
The Gold, a new British heist series, tells the true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbers, who accidentally re-invented modern crime
The New Dresden
More than 75 years after W.W. II reduced 90 percent of the city center to rubble, a sprawling art collection is spearheading Dresden’s rise from the ashes