On the Air
An exclusive excerpt from UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There revisits the American public’s close encounter … with Orson Welles
Get the Money, Get the Power
In 1983, critics panned Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone’s remake of Scarface. A decade later it became a cult hit, thanks to the hip-hop community
Why Millennials and Gen Z–ers Are Fighting
On this week’s podcast, Kat Rosenfield discusses why the TikTok generation sees things very differently
Lunch with John Stamos
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Full House actor joins host Bruce Bozzi to talk about learning drums from Sammy Davis Jr., imitating John Travolta’s walk, and picking a title for his new memoir
Pieced Together
In Switzerland, an exhibition of Deborah Turbeville’s collages gives the model turned artist her long-overdue recognition
Hannah Woo
The young Korean artist has found her niche making intricate works out of fabric
Can You Take Me Back?
Nearly 30 years after Yoko Ono handed Paul McCartney a fuzzy John Lennon demo titled “Now and Then,” the Beatles have their last-ever song, courtesy of Peter Jackson and A.I.—and it’s incredible
Pasolini’s Inferno
A fellow persecuted Italian intellectual revisits the little-remembered trials and tribulations that the writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini withstood in the name of his art—up until the end
Hollywood’s Conundrum
What will happen to the new World War II films as war rages in the Middle East?
Hojotoho!
Sprung from the archives at last, Riccardo Muti’s Die Walküre at La Scala
Hidden Figures
How an environmental historian accidentally discovered the Morris sisters, influential but long-overlooked 19th-century naturalists
How to Live to 100 (Or Not!)
On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David reveals whether Secrets of the Blue Zones is really all it promises
“A Castro or Worse”
Patrice Lumumba won the Congo independence in 1960, but his suspected Soviet sympathies led to his overthrow. A new book reveals the man behind the myth—and the C.I.A.’s role in his murder
A Portable Feast
A new book pairs Dwight Garner’s complementary obsessions: reading and eating
Lights at the End of the Tunnel
An exhibition of charming tube posters from the Golden Age of Travel goes on show at the London Transport Museum
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books pile on the Halloween scaries with a mix of religious cults, international terrorism, and the lottery
The Plains’ Greats
Alexander Payne gives the author a Hollywood master class on wheels, with stops at the childhood homes of Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and Marlon Brando
The Spooky World of the Simmons Sisters
A gruesome tale of gothic horror from three ill-fated and long-forgotten purveyors of woe
The Who’s Who of Halloween
With spooky season in full swing, New Yorkers have strapped on their cat ears and begun their yearly—shall we say “haunting”—antics to be seen in the right spots … even if they’re in full disguise
Oklahoma, Not O.K.
Martin Scorsese’s erratic Killers of the Flower Moon takes Hollywood’s conflicting views of the Sooner State to the downbeat limit
The Little Film That Could
Despite a minimal budget and pandemic lockdowns, The Great Escaper and its octogenarian stars managed to make their way to the screen