Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books pile on the Halloween scaries with a mix of religious cults, international terrorism, and the lottery
DNR
Texting acronyms for aging baby-boomers
The Spooky World of the Simmons Sisters
A gruesome tale of gothic horror from three ill-fated and long-forgotten purveyors of woe
The Adventures of Sir Percy
On the eve of his 97th birthday, Hilary Knight, the artist behind the Eloise picture books, introduces a new character: Sir Percy, a human-size frog!
The Plains’ Greats
Alexander Payne gives the author a Hollywood master class on wheels, with stops at the childhood homes of Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and Marlon Brando
Lights at the End of the Tunnel
An exhibition of charming tube posters from the Golden Age of Travel goes on show at the London Transport Museum
A Portable Feast
A new book pairs Dwight Garner’s complementary obsessions: reading and eating
“A Castro or Worse”
Patrice Lumumba won the Congo independence in 1960, but his suspected Soviet sympathies led to his overthrow. A new book reveals the man behind the myth—and the C.I.A.’s role in his murder
The Who’s Who of Halloween
With spooky season in full swing, New Yorkers have strapped on their cat ears and begun their yearly—shall we say “haunting”—antics to be seen in the right spots … even if they’re in full disguise
Oklahoma, Not O.K.
Martin Scorsese’s erratic Killers of the Flower Moon takes Hollywood’s conflicting views of the Sooner State to the downbeat limit
How to Live to 100 (Or Not!)
On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David reveals whether Secrets of the Blue Zones is really all it promises
The Little Film That Could
Despite a minimal budget and pandemic lockdowns, The Great Escaper and its octogenarian stars managed to make their way to the screen
The Rolling Stones, Out of Time
On the heels of Hackney Diamonds, the Rolling Stones’ first original studio album in 18 years, a new book collects rare and never-before-seen images of the band, photographed by Bill Wyman, Terry O’Neill, and others
Aria Mia Loberti
With her screen debut, in All the Light We Cannot See, the former academic is forging a path for actors in the blind community
Back from the Dead
Rarely seen Egyptian manuscripts with religious writings, spells, and illustrations go on view at the Getty Villa
Family Values
In a new book, a son pays homage to his mother, a muckraking investigative journalist
Moonlight
Arshile Gorky’s Charred Beloved I, “an abstraction of moonlight” going up for auction at Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale, evokes the poetry of his predecessors
Hit and Run
When writers on the TV series Fauda pitched a storyline eerily similar to the recent terrorist invasion of Israel, the show’s creators dismissed it as unrealistic. Now the unthinkable has become a reality
A Raging Bull’s Fighting Words
Robert De Niro has a new baby and a celebrated new film—his 10th with Martin Scorsese—but what the acclaimed actor really wants to discuss is the crazy and absurd phenomenon of Donald Trump
