Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books range from murder in Edith Wharton’s New York to the notorious 2003 Alperton Angels cult case
What Is Angelina Jolie Hiding?
On this week’s podcast, Dana Brown reveals how to sneak into her tightly guarded NoHo outpost
A Less Perfect Union
Flashbacks to the Buckley–Vidal smackdowns that changed our media landscape forever
Stories of Survival
A journalist chronicles present-day Lebanon’s turbulence—from the 2020 port explosion to its current financial crisis—from the perspective of women
Scaling “Mount Proust”
After reading all 3,200 pages of In Search of Lost Time, one editor explains what critics—including Cormac McCarthy—got wrong about the masterpiece
Phone Rage
In a new column, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is infuriated, incensed, and enraged by the world around him—particularly his new phone service
Julia Roberts and Baroness Bra
Patrick Kidd reveals how Michelle Mone used the actress’s cleavage to carry her from Dickensian poverty to the House of Lords and, now, scandal
Shock and Awe
The provocative, World War II–era paintings of Ben Shahn are on view in a sweeping retrospective
Of Human Bondage
Released more than 60 years ago, Dr. No, the first entry in the supercharged spy series, could have been just another B-rate action film. And then Sean Connery strolled in
Amicus Curious
Making a killing in the poetry biz to pursue the magic of briefs and appellate courts
Keeping Up with the Hösses
Based on a Martin Amis novel, The Zone of Interest is told from the perspective of an Auschwitz commandant and his family
Look Again
The vice-chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art at Christie’s New York recommends the 10 must-see paintings in the Met’s newly reopened European-art galleries
Garry Winogrand in Color
A new book collects rarely seen color work by the master of postwar American street photography, from the bustling byways of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk
The Iannucci Treatment
Boris Johnson and his successors, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, are skewered on the London stage in a caustic new play by Veep and The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci
Keeping It Real
How an art journalist challenged the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board—and incidentally revealed many of its secrets
For the Ages
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made 24 bold and imaginative films before falling out of favor. Now the duo that Martin Scorsese and Tilda Swinton credit as influences are getting their due
Boomers vs. Gen Z–ers
Did the baby-boomers have more style? Are Gen Z–ers less reprehensible? Find out in our battle of the generations!
