Move Over, Samson
The long-neglected Henry VIII of Camille Saint-Saëns stages comebacks on two continents
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a memoir from a trial attorney for the rich and infamous, a novel about naughty aristocrats, and the history of Billionaires’ Row
Holding Court
A look at the glamorous and long-forgotten life of the 1930s tennis star Alice Marble
Being Bardot
A dazzling new coffee-table book collects Douglas Kirkland’s and Terry O’Neill’s photographs of Brigitte Bardot behind the scenes of some of her best films
Lunch with Emily Blunt
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Oppenheimer actress explains her coming gap year and makes the case for being a modern-day Lucille Ball
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
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
Simon Callow Discusses Julian Sands
On this week’s podcast, the actor recalls his late friend. Plus: inside a successful Hollywood love story; and … U.F.O.’s!
Walking Wounded
An excerpt from the upcoming book Wounds and Other Blessings offers a meditation on physical, emotional, and worldly slights
The Making of a Marchioness
The late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava rejected her glamorous youth for a colorful life spent helping others
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
Hunter S. Thompson, Jackie Collins, and Satan—All in One Show!
This week’s podcast takes on Hollywood wives, an exorcist, and gonzo freaks
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
Murder, They Wrote
Martin Amis’s twin obsessions with Hollywood and serial killers are explored in four new mystery novels
