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You Only LIV Once!

In light of the P.G.A. Tour’s merger with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, a brand-new set of rules and regulations for players—and their wives!—is announced

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Shock of the Old

An exhibition of 28 nearly 400-year-old paintings was the global cultural event of 2023. Why?

Hip-Hop and Happening

Three new coffee-table books celebrate hip-hop—which originated in New York’s South Bronx 50 years ago—as a musical genre and cultural movement

The Final Debrief

Who was John le Carré? A new documentary and book uncover fresh clues

Arnold’s Fourth Act

“Calves are the biceps of the legs!”—and other pearls of wisdom from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new self-help book

The Inside Story on the Craziest Grifter Story Ever

Listen to the editor of “The Grift, the Prince, and the Twist” as he reveals how he uncovered the con

Kids These Days

A delightful new picture book explores one of children’s favorite pastimes: speculating about the future

A Closed Book

With its opaque criteria and global purview, judging literature’s prestigious Nobel Prize is often a thankless task

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Room Service

Facing the Music

An homage to Summer Stock, an overlooked 1950s musical starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

The Journalist and the Fraudster

Homegoing

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

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?

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

Danielle Kosann’s Sketchbook

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