The Making of a Marchioness
The late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava rejected her glamorous youth for a colorful life spent helping others
Fact Is Fiction
In an interview, Colson Whitehead discusses his new novel, Crook Manifesto, cancel culture, and why he avoids reading contemporary fiction
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a biography of the oft overlooked 20th U.S. president, James Garfield, a new edition of The Economist’s writing-style guide, and an eccentric coming-of-age novel
Gaëtan Bruel
Ahead of Bastille Day, the French cultural counselor discusses how New York’s Villa Albertine was born, and the novel approach it’s taking to artists’ residency programs
Hunter S. Thompson, Jackie Collins, and Satan—All in One Show!
This week’s podcast takes on Hollywood wives, an exorcist, and gonzo freaks
Eyes on the City
Evelyn Hofer’s photographs of New York, Paris, and Dublin offer a look at 1950s-and-1960s-era city life and its evocative street scenes
Factory by the Sea
In the summer of 1972, Andy Warhol bought a house in the historic fishing village of Montauk. The town was never the same again
Dance Therapy
Forty years ago, renowned music photographer Lynn Goldsmith created a cult-hit music album with the help of Carly Simon, Sting … and Warren Beatty
Going After the Gonzo
When the author was sent to visit Hunter S. Thompson—five months before Thompson shot himself—he found a writer trapped inside a legend
Business and Pleasure
Forty years after Jackie Collins wrote Hollywood Wives, the hugely popular novel that skewered the Beverly Hills elite, her daughter reflects on the power of Collins’s books—and her insistence on fun at all costs
Murder, They Wrote
Martin Amis’s twin obsessions with Hollywood and serial killers are explored in four new mystery novels
Diving For Treasure
The Met Opera takes up Georges Bizet’s youthful romance Les Pêcheurs de Perles
A Very British Scandal-Maker
Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all
The Midas Touch
Everything the American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen touches turns to gold
Lunch with Jon Hamm
The Maggie Moore(s) actor joins host Bruce Bozzi on this week’s Table for Two to talk about avoiding the Don Draper trap, how obsessive Tom Cruise really is, his marriage, and much more …
