Arnold’s Fourth Act
“Calves are the biceps of the legs!”—and other pearls of wisdom from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new self-help book
Kids These Days
A delightful new picture book explores one of children’s favorite pastimes: speculating about the future
Facing the Music
An homage to Summer Stock, an overlooked 1950s musical starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly
Terminal Hilarity
How three guys from the Milwaukee suburbs re-invented American comedy
The Devil’s in the Details
From Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God to the novels of Elena Ferrante—where has this insatiable appetite for all things Naples come from?
Family (Mis)Fortunes
A Trump and a Kushner square off for the title of “World’s Worst Grandpa”
Till Kingdom Come
The Holy Roman Empire failed so you don’t have to. In a new book, a scion of the Habsburg family interprets lessons from one of Europe’s most powerful dynasties for the personal realm
Julian Schnabel’s Cutting Edge
Despite commercial success and a body of work that now spans more than five decades, the artist is just as irritable and unimpressed as ever
Will a Victim’s Father Take Down the Idaho Killer?
On this week’s podcast, Howard Blum reveals how the father of one of the victims is pursuing his own investigation—and uncovering new facts
Lunch with Bette Midler
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, Bette Midler reveals to host Bruce Bozzi that, yes, even she gets nervous …
Photo Finish
More than 100 of Julia Margaret Cameron’s haunting portraits go on view for the first Parisian exhibition of her work in nearly 40 years
Twentieth-Century Woman
A new book collects 100 images taken by Lee Miller, the intrepid photographer, war correspondent, and Surrealist muse, played by Kate Winslet in an upcoming film
Dinner Party From Hell
It’s time for a second look at Thomas Adès’s loopy dance of death The Exterminating Angel
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss an audiobook murder mystery involving cellist prodigies, an intimate history of Manhattan’s Public Theater, and a globe-maker’s exploration of his craft
An Elegy Wrapped in a Comedy
A new book chronicles the rise of Bruce Robinson’s Withnail & I from box-office failure to endlessly quotable classic
Funny Is His Business
Noam Dworman, owner of the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, has worked with all the greats—including a few you haven’t heard of yet
Rope-a-Dope
Who is the champion in Washington’s swampy sleaze-and-corruption arena?
