Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau dressing in a turban and brownface for a 2001 “Arabian Nights” party is cultural appropriation. (Yes, he apologized.) Then there is pop-cultural appropriation. We don’t mean when rock stars like...

Behind a black and shiny door in west London, but one with no number on it, there lives the man with a chequered past as a prime minister of the United Kingdom. Whatever he achieved,...

Nineteen-year-old Ossip Zadkine, from a family of Smolensk boat builders, arrived in Paris in 1909 with a pipe, a Webster’s dictionary, a copy of The Lives of Great Men, and a suitcase filled with vivid...

It’s a lesson in the art of reading between the lines, where things left unsaid may signify more than mere words. In early September, The Guardian ran a long piece about the enormously popular Netflix...

Imagine a country where women have no jobs, no rights and are valued only for reproductive success. Imagine a country where girls aren’t taught to read in case they get ideas. Imagine those women and...

Schmecky SchmeckyTwo names, one inspired act. That Schmecky, he could imitate anyone. His two-way skit about the Duke of Windsor’s date with Il Duce had them on the floor at Grossinger’s. Sullivan hears about it...

If you’re young, beautiful, have a power job, money to play with, and a Brentwood Zip Code, Los Angeles can be a lot of fun.Unless you’ve got Donald Trump’s name on your résumé. The scarlet...

In the run-up to the recent prime-ministerial election, there was a brief but highly entertaining respite from the endless dirge of British politics. With tabloid guns squarely pointing at them, four of the Tory-party candidates—Rory...

Betye Saar, the ever photogenic high priestess of politically potent assemblage sculpture, is still at work in her Hollywood Hills studio. At 93, after almost 50 years of exhibiting her art, Saar is finally ready...

Here’s what you would have witnessed if you happened to be standing outside the Raymond restaurant in Pasadena on April 13, 1997: A ’68 VW Bug comes to a stop, a woman flies out, skirt...

When Hannah lived as a man, she worked on Wall Street with a woman who would sometimes wear a black Hervé Léger bandage dress. The image of the littlest of L.B.D.’s—an indelible relic from the...

The mythology of rock bands is full of contradictions, which have become fixed as the core audience for rock music has aged from adolescence to adulthood and now into old age. Many of the great...

Marius Petipa’s ballet of 1877, La Bayadère, was unknown in the West before the 1960s. But once it got out of the Soviet Union, this exotic extravaganza set in ancient India—where the good girl gets...

When the body of Peter Farquhar was found in October 2015, slumped on his couch with a bottle of whiskey beside him, those who knew him were saddened but few were surprised. An inspirational English...

We love the idea of a shirtdress, but all too often they’re made of shirting fabric—a boxy, wrinkly proposition. ...

In the early aughts, one couldn’t walk down a street in certain Manhattan neighborhoods ...

When it comes to outerwear that will stand up to the cold winds and rains ...

Meghan Markle isn’t the only one who relies on the West Village sweat fest known as Modo Yoga ...

If seeing last season’s salt-crusted boots lurking in your closet inspires you to pop a Xanax, well, join the club. ...

Disney has enchanted generations of children with films about a motherless deer, a singing bear and a cat-kidnapping French butler. Whether it can do the same with a black comedy about a small boy whose...

From afar, it resembles a tornado: an immense grey column shooting thousands of feet upwards from the forest canopy into the Amazonian skies.Up close it is an inferno: a raging conflagration obliterating yet another stretch...

It is important to establish the significance of John Galliano’s work in relation to this exceptional collection of photographs, taken from the thousands of images by Robert Fairer. His book is a perfect encapsulation of...

For Maaza Mengiste, the research on her new novel, The Shadow King, was a kind of archeological dig. The sweeping war epic is an elegy of loss, both personal and collective, set against Mussolini’s 1935...

Confirming the immutable law that governments always act most swiftly when their reputations are at stake, the Justice Department has sued Edward Snowden and the publishers of his book for violation of the secrecy and...

In 1993, Rupert Murdoch bought Asian satellite TV service Star TV, the first step in his quest to become a global-media mogul. Star had tried to create pan-Asian channels, but that ambition was floundering when...

If you’ve ever been to Sicily, you’ll have fond memories—of its natural beauty, of the amazingly well-preserved Greek ruins of Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples, of the first women in bikinis portrayed joyfully dancing on...

Heaven, My Home, the sequel to Attica Locke’s Edgar Award–winning Bluebird, Bluebird, is billed as a Highway 59 novel, announcing how integral that swath of East Texas is to its hero, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews....

“The books I love the most are the ones fresh out of the gate,” says Patchett, the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville as well as the author of several novels, including Bel Canto and,...

My new film, Where’s My Roy Cohn?, which opens in theaters this weekend, is about the American lawyer who first shot to national prominence with his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the...

Miriam Leone has around 903,000 followers on Instagram. Her posts: a clip from her Italian L’Oréal ad, a selfie taken pre–red carpet at Cannes. But it’s likely you haven’t heard of the Italian beauty—she works...

Both fairly and unfairly, “German cuisine” has often been considered an oxymoron. Schnitzel, sauerkraut, and various kinds of wurst don’t have to be resistant to innovation; it’s just that, like the centuries-old Bavarian culture that...

For 35 years starting in 1928, the 4472 Flying Scotsman hauled passengers between London and Edinburgh. The daily express train worked eight-hour shifts nonstop, became the first locomotive to officially break 100 m.p.h., and even...

Dear Victoria,We are going on honeymoon to Italy, ending on Lake Como. I want to wow my future wife. We’re young, but we’ve always traveled to the best places—thanks to our parents. They suggested Villa...

The lovely art created by Pierre Le-Tan, who died on Tuesday in Paris at 69, was full of whimsy, lightness, humor, and—like so many genuinely uplifting things—also a trace of melancholy. There’s a beautiful full...

If ever there were a vehicle that could make you feel like it is possible to transform all the pleasure of a day at ...

On October 27, Dave Chappelle will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The award’s namesake ...

For musicheads, vinyl is still the peak of audio formats. It’s also an obsession that leaves you shelling out ...

Akhtar Nawab, the man behind Alta Calidad in Brooklyn and Otra Vez in New Orleans, traveled to Mumbai ...

Long before Jeffrey Epstein was exposed as a highfalutin pedophile, there were other crimes that staggered belief. ...

Back to school and moving into sweater weather—and, now, into fall—but let’s try to keep the summer groove going just a little longer. The days may be getting shorter, but our nighttime strut should get...