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The Inside Story on the Prince Who Got Away with Murder

On this week’s podcast, the director of a new documentary reveals how she caught a killer

Move Over, Samson

The long-neglected Henry VIII of Camille Saint-Saëns stages comebacks on two continents

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a memoir from a trial attorney for the rich and infamous, a novel about naughty aristocrats, and the history of Billionaires’ Row

Holding Court

A look at the glamorous and long-forgotten life of the 1930s tennis star Alice Marble

Being Bardot

A dazzling new coffee-table book collects Douglas Kirkland’s and Terry O’Neill’s photographs of Brigitte Bardot behind the scenes of some of her best films

“Pursuit Doesn’t Get Any Hotter”

High Stakes and Light Kink

The Making of a Marchioness

The late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava rejected her glamorous youth for a colorful life spent helping others

Lunch with Emily Blunt

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Oppenheimer actress explains her coming gap year and makes the case for being a modern-day Lucille Ball

Stephen Kroninger’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Walking Wounded

An excerpt from the upcoming book Wounds and Other Blessings offers a meditation on physical, emotional, and worldly slights

The Legend of Bogie and Bacall

Theirs went down in history as that rare thing: a fairy-tale Hollywood marriage. But a new book reveals a rocky start to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s life together

Simon Callow Discusses Julian Sands

On this week’s podcast, the actor recalls his late friend. Plus: inside a successful Hollywood love story; and … U.F.O.’s!

From the Outside

Sommer Nights

Afire, a new German summer film, follows in the unique tradition of Billy Wilder’s People on Sunday

Growing Up Basquiat

Friends of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s compare a new exhibition on his life and work with the curious, complicated young artist they came of age with

Lola Tung

The actress returns to her starring role in Amazon’s hit series The Summer I Turned Pretty with the added weight of millions of viewers

Fact Is Fiction

In an interview, Colson Whitehead discusses his new novel, Crook Manifesto, cancel culture, and why he avoids reading contemporary fiction

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a biography of the oft overlooked 20th U.S. president, James Garfield, a new edition of The Economist’s writing-style guide, and an eccentric coming-of-age novel

Going After the Gonzo

When the author was sent to visit Hunter S. Thompson—five months before Thompson shot himself—he found a writer trapped inside a legend

Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Some Girls