Bad Girls’ Book Club
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert cancels her latest novel because it’s set in Siberia. What’s next? Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky removed from our libraries?
Truth or Derrière?
On this week’s podcast, Linda Wells explains how we find ourselves living in the Era of the Butt
Lunch with Rita Wilson
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the actress and singer reveals what she learned about aging from Nora Ephron and Bruce Springsteen, how Melanie Griffith stayed warm in the 70s, and much more …
The Phantom of Jacobus Vrel
Paris sees the opening of the first-ever exhibition devoted to a mysterious 17th-century Dutch artist whose works were long attributed to Vermeer
Grace Edwards
The young actress steps into Wes Anderson’s pastel world to play a young botanist in Asteroid City
Life in the Fast Lange
The first full-length biography of Jessica Lange reveals how the actress’s bohemian 1960s lifestyle paved the way for her acting career
Face Value
Inside South Korea’s booming plastic-surgery district, where hundreds of faces and bodies are tweaked every day
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mystery books, we recommend reading former F.B.I. director James Comey’s crime-fiction debut, which draws from a lengthy career in and out of the courtroom
In the Eye of the Storm
Paul McCartney’s Pentax photos from 1964—the year that marked the band’s American tour, and the start of Beatlemania—are collected in a new book
Laya DeLeon Hayes
For her latest role, the young actress stars in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, a modern twist on Frankenstein
The Bard of Berkshire
Best-selling novelist Robert Harris—his books have sold more than 10 million copies—still writes 800 words a day. Just don’t expect any sex scenes
A Charmed Life
Poet, human-rights activist, world traveler, wife of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist William Styron—a new memoir chronicles the many sides of Rose Styron
Everyone’s Mad as Hell and No One’s Taking It Anymore
On this week’s podcast, Bruce Handy tells us how the 2020s have become the Raging 20s
Design Within Reach
Architect Lina Ghotmeh is sprucing up the Serpentine Gallery, just in time for its big summer party
Summer Time
Eleven years after Donna Summer’s death, the Queen of Disco’s collection of lavish costumes, gold records, and handwritten lyrics will go up for auction at Christie’s
