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
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
Sommer Nights
Afire, a new German summer film, follows in the unique tradition of Billy Wilder’s People on Sunday
The Legend of Bogie and Bacall
Theirs went down in history as that rare thing: a fairy-tale Hollywood marriage. But a new book reveals a rocky start to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s life together
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
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
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
Hunter S. Thompson, Jackie Collins, and Satan—All in One Show!
This week’s podcast takes on Hollywood wives, an exorcist, and gonzo freaks
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
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
Going After the Gonzo
When the author was sent to visit Hunter S. Thompson—five months before Thompson shot himself—he found a writer trapped inside a legend
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
Diving For Treasure
The Met Opera takes up Georges Bizet’s youthful romance Les Pêcheurs de Perles
