When Life Gives You Lemons …
Produced by Pauline Chalamet and directed by Rachel Walden, the short film Lemon Tree is inspired by a true story from Walden’s grandfather’s childhood
Doomsday Goals
A pessimist prepares for a job interview
The Kingmaker
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis sealed Colonel Tom Parker’s reputation as greedy and conniving. In truth, Presley’s manager was the opposite—someone who would do anything for his client and friend
Paul Henkel
Raised in the art world, the young curator is spotlighting new talent at his Manhattan art gallery
Sight Unseen
Alice Mason was a celebrated hostess and New York’s real-estate agent to the elite, but while she was showing lavish apartments to clients like Marilyn Monroe, she was hiding a family secret
Striking It Rich
Sports agent to the stars Rich Paul attributes his success—his friendship with LeBron James, his relationship with Adele—to luck. Turns out it’s anything but
Moment of Truth
Do historical films and TV programs need to be accurate?
Absolutely Normal Chaos
Is Ridley Scott the bluntest man in the movie business? On the press tour for Napoleon, the director swears, shouts, and says whatever comes to mind
If These Walls Could Talk …
On this week’s podcast, Christopher Mason explains why a confidante to New York’s elite hid her true identity
In Lichtenstein’s Shadow
In honor of the Pop artist’s 100th birthday, the Parrish Art Museum is restoring a pair of his kinetic sculptures
Silent Night, Holy Night
The John Adams Nativity oratorio El Niño, distilled
The Comeback King
How a housewife from Edinburgh solved one of the great mysteries of English history—and cleared King Richard III’s name
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
Murder, They Wrote
Long-cold cases get hot again in the season’s best mystery books—and oldie-but-goodie TV dramas
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
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