Love in the Time of Content Creators
On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David tells us how Gen Z has taken all the fun out of wedding proposals
The Price of Being a Kennedy
The show-runner and producer of a new documentary series ask, Why is the world still obsessed with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy?
A Pragmatic Progressive’s Lament
Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of the Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on free speech, protests, and liberalism
That’s Entertainment!
At the Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger without tears
Manifest Industry
Eighty years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a new book looks back at the American factories that manufactured its crucial minerals on an unprecedented scale
Kelly Wearstler’s Guide to Los Angeles
The interior designer shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Christopher Briney
The actor returns to his role in Amazon Prime Video’s hit series The Summer I Turned Pretty, while making his stage debut alongside Ben Stiller’s daughter
The Spy Who Came In from the Burning Picassos
Working undercover for the French Resistance, Rose Valland witnessed the Nazis’ destruction of 500 precious artworks
The Breakfast Club Meets Shoah
Delegation, a recently released Israeli film about a group of teenagers on a class trip to the Nazi death camps, resists the “trauma roller coaster”
Galt Gets Greenlit
A group of conservative tech investors is bringing Atlas Shrugged author Ayn Rand—whose devotees include Donald Trump and Peter Thiel—back to the big screen
Tenn out of Tenn
Svenskt Tenn, the Stockholm-based design company shaped by Estrid Ericson and Josef Frank, celebrates its centennial with an archival coffee-table book
Inside the Great Canadian Gold Heist
On this week’s podcast, Harold von Kursk reports on one of the most audacious robberies ever
Strangers in the Night
Spin Cycle, a one-act play about two people crossing paths at a laundromat, premieres in New York
Radiohead’s Homecoming
Nearly 40 years after getting their start at an Oxford pub, the 90s sensation is being honored by the university with an exhibition of original artwork, from album covers to posters, to drafts of lyrics
Like & Other Drugs
Long before ChatGPT and self-driving cars, the humble Thumbs-up button took the technology community by storm—and rewired our brains forever
Pierre Yovanovitch’s Guide to Provence
The French interior designer shares his favorite spots in the region he calls home
Stay Cool, Britannia!
Oasis’s reunion and a slew of U.K. TV hits—including Lena Dunham’s new London-set rom-com—are bringing back Brit culture like it’s the 1990s
The Gwyneth Chronicles
A new, unauthorized biography of the actress and Goop founder dishes a lot of dirt and shows how Gwyneth Paltrow has left an indelible mark on popular culture
Celestial Crisis Management
Seeking to distance himself from Trump, God is desperate for help—even from you-know-who