The Summer of Discontent for the .1 Percent
Their fancy private jets can’t land; they’re angry at an Eleven Madison Park co-founder … Life is very, very hard
The Noblest Roman of Them All
Ben Whishaw’s bespectacled Brutus dominates a Julius Caesar for our time
Plot Twist
In his forthcoming novel, The Twist of a Knife, Anthony Horowitz has taken a metaphysical approach to revenge by killing the Sunday Times theater critic
Winning Formula
Just like Tom Cruise hurling through the sky with more than twice the g-forces some astronauts endure during rocket launches, it will be real races and real cars for Brad Pitt in the Top Gun: Maverick director’s next film
Going Rogue
Eight questions with Patrick Radden Keefe, best known for his accounts of the Irish Troubles and the Sacklers, whose new book profiles all manner of crooks
“Defense Debbies” and the Rise of Gun-Loving Mothers
Thanks to Instagram, “arms and the woman” is a style statement
Scooby Dooby Do …
Why go to Elvis chapels in Vegas when Frank Sinatra can perform the ring-a-ding-ding for you?
Never a Dull Moment
The French photographer Nicolas Rachline’s portraits evoke a colorful life on the move
A Tale of Two Bobs
A new documentary celebrates the Homeric labors of Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb—and ends with a cliff-hanger
Pete Doherty’s Wasteland
Hard drugs, a spell in prison, and matching tattoos with Kate Moss—the Libertines singer’s new confessional memoir doesn’t miss a beat
Love in the Heavens, Love on Earth
Live from San Francisco, Bright Sheng’s spacey Dream of the Red Chamber
Misery Loves Company
Ottessa Moshfegh’s bleak yet funny novels have earned her a cult following. Her new book takes things a step further
Talking Contradiction
Notes from the archive of the Jewish Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer show that even he, a renowned pacifist, was torn when it came to Israel and its place in the world
Dante’s Suburbia
Novelist Tom Perrotta, our poet laureate of high-school angst, revisits his best-known character in his latest book, Tracy Flick Can’t Win. Decades have gone by, he says, but Tracy’s small-town torments (and ours) still haven’t changed
