Air Mail

Global Transmission Listen to music without borders! Get rid of your smartphone! Tell time with … silicon? And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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Television

The Hits Keep Coming After the success of Unorthodox, its co-creator Anna Winger returns to Netflix with Transatlantic, a black comedy about World War II–era refugees

By Alexandra Marshall

Bad Trip

Sex, Drugs, and Bloody Murder The gruesome killing of an aspiring model by a rich American playboy sent shock waves through Swinging London and its infamous Chelsea Set

By John Glatt

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Is Elon Musk having trouble with his X? Did Melania Trump almost quit the White House? Is there a rift in the Sussex-verse? Who is demanding your attention?

By George Kalogerakis

The Prisoner’s Song The Dazed and Confused and Boyhood director, Richard Linklater, discusses trading drama for documentary in his latest, a searing film about the American prison system

By Nicolas Rapold

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Lee Friedlander, Framed Collaborating with the cinematic photographer, the filmmaker Joel Coen is staging shows of Friedlander’s work on both coasts

By Michael Hainey

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The Further Adventures of the Heir and the Spare And other strange news about these curious days …

By George Kalogerakis

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Marina Cicogna The Italian countess transcended her gilded background to become Europe’s first major female film producer

By Bob Colacello

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It’s Only a Grocery Store And yet Erewhon has become the epicenter of Hollywood. See you at the salad bar?

By Devin Friedman

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Spite the Power When Larry David invented “the spite store,” he meant it as a joke. But today the concept seems to animate most of American politics

By Joel Stein

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Family Therapy

By Michael Knox Beran

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Books

You Can Call Me Al

By Bruce Handy

A Look Back

Just Glow with It Only partly French and certainly not a sunscreen, Bain de Soleil nevertheless brought a whiff of St. Tropez to the masses

By Liana Schaffner

Internal Affairs

What’s Up, Doc? If up to 10 percent of women have polycystic-ovary syndrome, why is it taking patients years to get diagnosed?

By Deborah Copaken

The Preppy Crack-Up

By Michael Knox Beran

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From Tree to Tree The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family

By Ivana Lowell and Jonathan Moffat

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Unusual Suspects The behind-the-scenes story of the making of Casablanca, which hit theaters 80 years ago

By Robert Matzen

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Elaine May Speaks! A rare interview, over deviled eggs, at Sardi’s

By Roger Friedman

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Muscle Memory

By Max Carter

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Mona Pirnot The playwright dishes on how she got David Greenspan to act in her one-man show about, well, David Greenspan

By Rhoda Feng

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Buckle Up! It wasn’t all that long ago that British Airways was known as “the world’s favorite airline.” Today, some Brits would rather take EasyJet

By Mark Ellwood

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Film Classics

A Lotta Ins, a Lotta Outs, a Lotta What-Have-Yous The origin—and immortality—of The Big Lebowski

By Josh Karp

Eight Questions

Weathering the Storm The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave

By Jim Kelly

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump and Elon Musk are aggressively seeking out the spotlight again. If only Xi Jinping would disappear them too

By George Kalogerakis

The Attention-Whore Index Bezos and Zuck are sucking up, Prince Andrew is letting Britain down, and it’s all Greek to Kimberly Guilfoyle

By George Kalogerakis

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New York

Global Transmission Listen to music without borders! Get rid of your smartphone! Tell time with … silicon? And more …

The Hits Keep Coming After the success of Unorthodox, its co-creator Anna Winger returns to Netflix with Transatlantic, a black comedy about World War II–era refugees

Sex, Drugs, and Bloody Murder The gruesome killing of an aspiring model by a rich American playboy sent shock waves through Swinging London and its infamous Chelsea Set

The Attention-Whore Index Is Elon Musk having trouble with his X? Did Melania Trump almost quit the White House? Is there a rift in the Sussex-verse? Who is demanding your attention?

The Prisoner’s Song The Dazed and Confused and Boyhood director, Richard Linklater, discusses trading drama for documentary in his latest, a searing film about the American prison system

Lee Friedlander, Framed Collaborating with the cinematic photographer, the filmmaker Joel Coen is staging shows of Friedlander’s work on both coasts

The Further Adventures of the Heir and the Spare And other strange news about these curious days …

Marina Cicogna The Italian countess transcended her gilded background to become Europe’s first major female film producer

It’s Only a Grocery Store And yet Erewhon has become the epicenter of Hollywood. See you at the salad bar?

Spite the Power When Larry David invented “the spite store,” he meant it as a joke. But today the concept seems to animate most of American politics

Family Therapy

You Can Call Me Al

Just Glow with It Only partly French and certainly not a sunscreen, Bain de Soleil nevertheless brought a whiff of St. Tropez to the masses

What’s Up, Doc? If up to 10 percent of women have polycystic-ovary syndrome, why is it taking patients years to get diagnosed?

The Preppy Crack-Up

From Tree to Tree The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family

Unusual Suspects The behind-the-scenes story of the making of Casablanca, which hit theaters 80 years ago

Elaine May Speaks! A rare interview, over deviled eggs, at Sardi’s

Muscle Memory

Mona Pirnot The playwright dishes on how she got David Greenspan to act in her one-man show about, well, David Greenspan

Buckle Up! It wasn’t all that long ago that British Airways was known as “the world’s favorite airline.” Today, some Brits would rather take EasyJet

A Lotta Ins, a Lotta Outs, a Lotta What-Have-Yous The origin—and immortality—of The Big Lebowski

Weathering the Storm The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump and Elon Musk are aggressively seeking out the spotlight again. If only Xi Jinping would disappear them too

The Attention-Whore Index Bezos and Zuck are sucking up, Prince Andrew is letting Britain down, and it’s all Greek to Kimberly Guilfoyle