Skeletons in the Closet
A new true-crime podcast deals with a grisly murder, a faceless ghost, and just how far you can stretch family ties
Hit and Run
When writers on the TV series Fauda pitched a storyline eerily similar to the recent terrorist invasion of Israel, the show’s creators dismissed it as unrealistic. Now the unthinkable has become a reality
Write Book, Bake Cake, Buy Flowers
Acclaimed first as a novel, then as a movie, The Hours finds a niche at the Metropolitan Opera
After-School Activity
While spies are frequently portrayed as hardened, middle-aged men, a new book reveals that undercover agents are often twentysomething women
Charlotte Colbert
The multi-media artist’s Alice in Wonderland–inspired exhibition brings a trippy perspective to Frieze London
A Closed Book
With its opaque criteria and global purview, judging literature’s prestigious Nobel Prize is often a thankless task
Kids These Days
A delightful new picture book explores one of children’s favorite pastimes: speculating about the future
Double Coronation
Jake Heggie opens new seasons at the Met and in Houston with Dead Man Walking, his first opera, and Intelligence, his 10th
The Shock of the Old
An exhibition of 28 nearly 400-year-old paintings was the global cultural event of 2023. Why?
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
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
Facing the Music
An homage to Summer Stock, an overlooked 1950s musical starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly
Family (Mis)Fortunes
A Trump and a Kushner square off for the title of “World’s Worst Grandpa”
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?
Terminal Hilarity
How three guys from the Milwaukee suburbs re-invented American comedy
