Lights, Camera, Party
To make the theatrical experience fun again, Lucas King Weber and Keith Herron, two twentysomething cinephiles, are throwing parties at AMC screenings in Manhattan
Daddy Issues
The Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci biographer Walter Isaacson reveals what drew him to Elon Musk—and how a rare conversation with Musk’s father shed light on the billionaire entrepreneur’s erratic (to put it lightly) behavior
Under the Tuscan (and Umbrian) Sun
A road trip around the homes, archives, and foundations of the artists of central Italy, and those who made their name there, from Beverly Pepper to Alberto Burri to Niki de Saint Phalle
Better by Design
A new book offers a survey of the U.S. Embassies built during the Cold War, designed by some of the world’s most celebrated architects, including Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, and Edward Durell Stone
The Best of the Rest
Its core titles are rarely out of the U.K. Top 5, and its chattiest, The Rest Is Football, debuted at No. 1. How did Britain’s foremost soccer star, Gary Lineker, quietly build a podcast empire?
Assignment: Sinatra
Part IV
Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject
Packed House
After a decade of delays, the brand-new Perelman Performing Arts Center will finally host actors, dancers, and artists in Manhattan’s financial district
Tom Wolfe’s Secret Weapon
On this week’s podcast, Peter Stevenson reveals how the writer’s wife secretly reported on New York’s social elite
From North Korea with Love
Overheard snippets of conversation between Vladimir Putin and his guest, Kim Jong Un
Watts’s Stacks
The Rolling Stones drummer was a passionate collector of first editions and jazz ephemera
The Man in the White Suit Is Back
With his pyrotechnic prose and clinical dissecting of social mores, Tom Wolfe was the pre-eminent chronicler of the United States in the late 20th century. Now, five years after his death, he’s back in the public eye
Breaking the Bank
The victim of an international crypto-currency scam details how she was drawn into the OneCoin fraud, and why the woman behind the scheme landed on the F.B.I.’s 10 Most Wanted list
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss an Agatha Christie-inspired graphic-novel, a history of the AR-15, and a biography of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert
Open Secrets
A collection of Amy Winehouse’s teenage-diary entries and song lyrics sheds light on the artist 12 years after her untimely death
Jocelyn Bioh
Ahead of the Broadway debut of her new play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, the actress and playwright discusses why she infuses her stories with humor
Assisted Leading
White House aides worry that Biden is showing his age—or Methuselah’s
The Weidenfeld Way
A new biography tells the story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld, of London’s Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an uproarious character who stood at the meeting point of the literary and society worlds
Bigger than Life
Tragedy! Triumph! Tinsel! One hundred years of the Hollywood sign
A Tweed Apart
Featuring more than 200 looks, a sweeping retrospective of Coco Chanel’s life and career goes up at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Lunch with Matthew Broderick
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the No Hard Feelings actor remembers his rough-and-tumble days growing up on Washington Square North, in New York City
