Pete Doherty’s Wasteland
Hard drugs, a spell in prison, and matching tattoos with Kate Moss—the Libertines singer’s new confessional memoir doesn’t miss a beat
Love in the Heavens, Love on Earth
Live from San Francisco, Bright Sheng’s spacey Dream of the Red Chamber
20th-Century Picture Show
A new coffee-table book collects some of the last century’s most enduring photographs, shot by Norman Parkinson, Sebastião Salgado, Weegee, and others
The Spy Who Came In from the Boudoir
A new biography of John le Carré reveals a private life rich in shenanigans, including a long-standing mistress
Women Beware Women
Gillian Anderson and Lily James chew the scenery in All About Eve
The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven
Brecht and Weill’s swan song, The Seven Deadly Sins
Better by Design
Two thousand exhibitors set up shop for Salone del Mobile, Milan’s furniture fair to the stars
Breaking Bread
Forget hot dogs—this Memorial Day, it’s all about the bun, and the many other forms of bread artists from Dalí to Lichtenstein used as motifs in their work
Always in Fashion
A major retrospective highlights the many sides of famed photographer William Klein
There’s Something About Harry
Harry Styles is at the top of his game as musician, actor, and icon. And what’s not to love?
Is His Figure Less Than Greek?
Of Simon Russell Beale, London Assurance, and the joys of farce
A Weekend at Marchmont
On a recent spring day in the Scottish countryside, the newly restored estate of Rory McEwen hosted a tribute to the late, great British artist and folk singer
Elsinore Revisited
A Cubist Hamlet from the Australian composer Brett Dean, with the original Glyndebourne cast
Take a Chance on Them
Forty years after their unofficial split, Abba is attempting a comeback with a live-concert tour featuring avatars of the band’s younger selves
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Mean Girls meets the Bard in an encore of Red Bull Theater’s Mac Beth
Paradise Regained
On the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St., the unlikely story of how the greatest rock ’n’ roll album of all time came to be
For the Love of Roses
Today’s rose fanatics—and there are a lot of them—join a fan club that stretches from Sappho to Shakespeare to Empress Joséphine
Trump in Iambic Pentameter
Meet the British playwright who has turned modern-day American politics into a Shakespearean comedy
