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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

Stephen Kroninger’s Sketchbook

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!

High Stakes and Light Kink

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

“Pursuit Doesn’t Get Any Hotter”

The Making of a Marchioness

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

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

Walking Wounded

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

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

Dance Therapy

Forty years ago, renowned music photographer Lynn Goldsmith created a cult-hit music album with the help of Carly Simon, Sting … and Warren Beatty

Business and Pleasure

Forty years after Jackie Collins wrote Hollywood Wives, the hugely popular novel that skewered the Beverly Hills elite, her daughter reflects on the power of Collins’s books—and her insistence on fun at all costs

Some Girls

Murder, They Wrote

Martin Amis’s twin obsessions with Hollywood and serial killers are explored in four new mystery novels

Gaëtan Bruel

Ahead of Bastille Day, the French cultural counselor discusses how New York’s Villa Albertine was born, and the novel approach it’s taking to artists’ residency programs

Coming Up Roses

Hunter S. Thompson, Jackie Collins, and Satan—All in One Show!

This week’s podcast takes on Hollywood wives, an exorcist, and gonzo freaks

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Eyes on the City

Evelyn Hofer’s photographs of New York, Paris, and Dublin offer a look at 1950s-and-1960s-era city life and its evocative street scenes

Factory by the Sea

In the summer of 1972, Andy Warhol bought a house in the historic fishing village of Montauk. The town was never the same again