Quintessa Swindell
The 27-year-old actor stars in Ridley Scott’s new thriller, Prime Target, while simultaneously making their directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival
The First Slam Dunk
How the powerful—and at times illegal—basketball shot made its way from the streetball games of New York City and the plains of West Texas to the N.B.A.
Look Again
The vice-chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art at Christie’s New York recommends the 10 must-see paintings in the Met’s newly reopened European-art galleries
The Palace We Call Home
Le Palais Stoclet is one of the world’s most spectacular private homes. A new law might force it to open its doors to the public
Rule of Three
Have the Bidens ruined aviator sunglasses for the rest of us? How to avoid looking like a rent boy on the runway! And more, in our column on how to live …
“A Castro or Worse”
Patrice Lumumba won the Congo independence in 1960, but his suspected Soviet sympathies led to his overthrow. A new book reveals the man behind the myth—and the C.I.A.’s role in his murder
Stanley Kubrick’s Waterloo
Having just tackled the end of the world and the mysteries of the universe, the obsessive director set his sights on Napoleon. Tens of thousands of index cards later, he waved the white flag
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
