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Why a Golf-Course Burial Plot Is Right for You!

And the Winner Is …

Super-publicist and very good-looking man John Barron hosts the first annual and already very coveted Trumpy Awards. Sorry, Marjorie, the honorees aren’t who you’d think!

America’s Wackiest Pastime Just Got Even Wackier!

Rocking the Boat

The Christina O, Aristotle Onassis’s yacht, is remembered as Jackie O’s fabulous hangout. In reality, the former First Lady gave the shabby boat the air of glamour

Eating Their Words

Lincoln Fever

When it comes to the 16th president, you can never have too many biographies

The Magic Touch

How Channing Tatum’s Magic Mike franchise morphed from a film for teenage boys into a feminist masterpiece

The Burt Bacharach Songbook

Mourn the loss of one of the 20th century’s most prolific composers with 30 songs from his vast catalogue

Fresh, Fly, Fabulous!

A new coffee-table book chronicles 50 years of hip-hop style, from Queen Latifah to Dapper Dan, Slick Rick to Run-DMC

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Gary Janetti

The comedy writer and producer behind Family Guy, Will & Grace, and a beloved Instagram account reveals his travel routine

Rogues’ Gallery

The painter Jamian Juliano-Villani unveils her new art gallery, on New York’s Avenue A, formerly home to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

The Salmanic Verses

A Film Festival About Writers

The Brooklyn Public Library’s LitFilm festival explores the work of Maya Angelou, Leonard Cohen, and others, through the lens of film

Magnate for Trouble

The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe

Nearly 175 years on, the writer’s death remains as mysterious as his literature. A new book reveals the roles of a jealous poet and a conniving doctor in keeping it so

Did Social Media Trigger the Idaho Murders?

Writer Howard Blum discusses the case—and the questions he’d like answers to

Lunch with Chelsea Handler

The fast-talking, eternally saucy comedian sits down with host Bruce Bozzi to talk about auditioning potential lovers, escaping her family, and much more in our podcast Table for Two

Jack Siebert

The Los Angeles–based curator using social media to find the art world’s rising stars

What a Gas!

Quick-fire answers to all your pressing questions about the Chinese spy balloon

Nature Morte

A poet of transfiguration, the sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere discusses the emotions that warm her dark work

Exit Laughing

At La Monnaie, a posthumous premiere for On Purge Bébé, a prolific Belgian’s off-color comedy

Running Target

In the 1930s, Nazis tried to kill All Quiet on the Western Front. A new screen adaptation, in theaters now, proves its longevity

Staff Picks

Don’t miss an actor’s debut novel, a look at forgotten heroes of the Holocaust, and a travelogue of a family’s trip along Route 66