Ludovic Nkoth
One year after moving to Paris, the 28-year-old artist, known for expressive portraits that center on Blackness, is collaborating with some of France’s most prestigious institutions
The Girl with the Gimlet Eye
New York writer Natasha Stagg translated her exacting cultural critiques into work for big brands. Her latest book grapples with questions about social media, identity, and authenticity in our increasingly online world
His Back Pages
Alongside the opening of the Bob Dylan Center, in Tulsa, comes a giant new volume of handwritten lyrics, letters from friends including George Harrison, and rare manuscripts
The Life and Legend of Maggie Higgins
She was one of the few female war correspondents assigned to W.W. II and Korea. A new book details Higgins’s intrepid life, both in the field and amid the misogyny of the 20th-century news industry
The Magic of Marisol
A traveling retrospective of Marisol Escobar’s work highlights the onetime Warhol girl’s wit and humor
Skeletons in the Closet
A new true-crime podcast deals with a grisly murder, a faceless ghost, and just how far you can stretch family ties
Why Sam Bankman-Fried Is Screwed
On this week’s podcast, Jacob Silverman reveals how the feds are crushing the bitcoin hustler
Lunch with Irving Azoff
Music’s boldest executive, who has managed everyone from the Eagles to Nicki Minaj, joins host Bruce Bozzi for a power lunch on this week’s episode of Table for Two
Cat-and-Mouse Game
It was never going to be easy adapting “Cat Person,” Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker short story, into a movie—even with Nicholas Braun starring
Phony Business
J. D. Salinger refused to let his novels and stories be adapted for film and television. But that hasn’t stopped some directors
Write Book, Bake Cake, Buy Flowers
Acclaimed first as a novel, then as a movie, The Hours finds a niche at the Metropolitan Opera
After-School Activity
While spies are frequently portrayed as hardened, middle-aged men, a new book reveals that undercover agents are often twentysomething women
Double Coronation
Jake Heggie opens new seasons at the Met and in Houston with Dead Man Walking, his first opera, and Intelligence, his 10th
Charlotte Colbert
The multi-media artist’s Alice in Wonderland–inspired exhibition brings a trippy perspective to Frieze London
A Closed Book
With its opaque criteria and global purview, judging literature’s prestigious Nobel Prize is often a thankless task
The Shock of the Old
An exhibition of 28 nearly 400-year-old paintings was the global cultural event of 2023. Why?
Kids These Days
A delightful new picture book explores one of children’s favorite pastimes: speculating about the future
You Only LIV Once!
In light of the P.G.A. Tour’s merger with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, a brand-new set of rules and regulations for players—and their wives!—is announced
Hip-Hop and Happening
Three new coffee-table books celebrate hip-hop—which originated in New York’s South Bronx 50 years ago—as a musical genre and cultural movement
