Where Have You Been All My Life?
In their 80s, Riccardo Muti and Philip Glass have just started making music together
Blow, Winds, and Crack Your Cheeks! Rage! Blow!
From Stratford, Ontario, a King Lear of symphonic power
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
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?
Watts’s Stacks
The Rolling Stones drummer was a passionate collector of first editions and jazz ephemera
Game Changer
In January, football player Damar Hamlin nearly died of cardiac arrest during a game. Instead of creating new safety measures, N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell is spinning the story as a triumph for the league
Bigger than Life
Tragedy! Triumph! Tinsel! One hundred years of the Hollywood sign
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
Assignment: Sinatra
Part III
Harold Hayes decides that Esquire will be proceeding with or without the cooperation of Sinatra—whom Talese trails to Las Vegas
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
Cast to the Rescue
Salzburg’s latest crack at The Marriage of Figaro
Back to Basics
Sixty years on, Lincoln Chase and Shirley Ellis’s hit song “The Nitty Gritty” remains a lesson in style
Assignment: Sinatra
Part II
While he waits for an opening into the singer’s inner circle, Gay Talese acquaints himself with “the unhappy ones”
Assignment: Sinatra
A legendary editor. A recalcitrant writer. And a subject that was both man and myth. The story behind the writing of what became known as the greatest magazine profile ever
Grace Potter
Starting next week, the singer-songwriter will perform ballads from her latest album, Mother Road, written on her Route 66 road trip, around the U.S.
The Barbie Girl Variations
A Spanish cellist in Sweden who moonlights on piano gives Aqua’s golden oldie a half dozen makeovers
Always Beckoning
Beck, laughing wild amid severest woe, is on tour through September 10, with upcoming stops in Texas, Chicago, Toronto, and cities along the East Coast
Au Revoir, les Femmes
A new documentary tells the little-known story of a group of 230 non-Jewish women of the French Resistance who were sent to Auschwitz
Picture’s Up
The 76th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which opens next week, will screen a selection of vintage movies and innovative international films
Little Mermaid in La La Land
From Amsterdam, a fey yet bleak revival of Dvořák’s Rusalka
In Their Heads
Set in an asylum, choreographer Matthew Bourne’s twist on Romeo and Juliet surprises audiences at Sadler’s Wells
