The Troubles of Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The author of the best-selling Fleishman Is in Trouble has money issues, religious worries, and anxiety about her next novel. It’s not easy being “the female Philip Roth”
FAMM Fatales
Europe’s first private museum dedicated solely to art made by women opens in Mougins, France, featuring works by Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, and Marina Abramović
Dream Time Alfresco
Way above 96th Street, Shakespeare’s midsummer madness in classical Harlem Renaissance style
All You Need Is Loot
The market for Beatles memorabilia is valued in the billions and continues to climb. But will your kids care if you own John and Yoko’s Delft porcelain toilet?
In Bed with Marvin Gaye
In an unpublished interview—given months before he was shot dead 40 years ago—the Prince of Soul talked police brutality, European decency, and his explicit new single
Flying into a Rage
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is furious at airlines, mad at airports, and apoplectic about his fellow passengers not being as angry as he is
In Full Swing
In their only U.S. appearance this year, dancers from Britain’s Royal Ballet grace the venerable Jacob’s Pillow, in Massachusetts
The No. 1 from Hell
Recorded for the soundtrack to Four Weddings and a Funeral, “Love Is All Around” was so popular that even the band who sang it grew tired of its success
Air Mail Environments: New York
Our latest creation will immerse you in New York’s glorious sounds, from the hallowed atrium of the Metropolitan Opera to the clank and churn of the Staten Island Ferry
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series
A Great Deal More Night Music
Stephen Sondheim’s orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick, doubles his score in the world premiere of a re-arranged A Little Night Music at New York’s Lincoln Center
Midnight in Toronto
Fifty years ago, Mikhail Baryshnikov, a star of the U.S.S.R.’s Kirov Ballet, defected from his troupe after a performance in Canada. Dance was never the same
The Most Expensive Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
Sanyu befriended Picasso and Giacometti yet died destitute. Today, he’s known as the “Chinese Matisse”
Miles Greenberg’s Guide to Montreal
The Canadian artist shares the spots that shaped his adolescence as an art-school dropout
Miloš Karadaglić
The reigning superstar of the classical guitar on recalibrating his priorities
Going Mad!
An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Massachusetts, offers a window into the mad, mad world of the historic humor magazine
Nuptials of the Rich and Famous
Things are a little different at celebrity weddings. There are certain rules
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Guide to Basel
The curator, critic, and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries shares his favorite spots in the Swiss art town
Fish Tales
An exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, in Massachusetts, highlights more than 40 delightfully illustrated editions of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Tish Weinstock’s Guide to London
The beauty editor and fashion fixture shares her tips on where to find everything from Edwardian lace to Chanel tweed in her home city
The Daumier of La Dolce Vita
Ava Gardner kicked him in the groin, Peter O’Toole socked him in the ear, and this month Gérard Depardieu pounded him to a pulp. But 79-year-old Rino Barillari isn’t slowing down
Satch Is Back!
Five spectacular and previously unheard Louis Armstrong recordings from 1968 are finally being released by the BBC, showing him to be a great entertainer to the last
Hoaxing the Nazis
Using fake tanks, movie-set designers, and an all-too-real General Patton, the Allies ingeniously fooled Hitler in the run-up to D-day
Along Came Polly
Polly Jean Harvey, the fearless singer and two-time Mercury Prize winner known as PJ Harvey, blends her recent work with 90s classics on her European summer tour
