Easy Breezy
A personal air-conditioning unit from Japan! The best way to keep your fridge smelling clean! An adapter that will bring your analog audio gear into the streaming age! And more …
“This Is Pretty Historic”
Peter Cuong Franklin’s journey from Saigon refugee to the first Michelin-starred chef in Ho Chi Minh City is the stuff of a Hollywood epic
The Monroe Doctrine
A new film about Marilyn Monroe starring Ana de Armas follows the release of two documentaries (and Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala wardrobe malfunction), confirming our 60-year obsession with the star
What on Earth Happened to Lara Logan?
The former 60 Minutes foreign correspondent recently took a hard turn to the conspiratorial and anti-Semitic right. Is PTSD the cause, or is there something else?
High Noonan
The Pulitzer Prize–winning political columnist Peggy Noonan discusses her note from Trump, the surprising reason why he is not a Neanderthal, and writing in Edmund Burke for president
Studs Terkel Lives On
A new podcast and reissue pay homage to Division Street, a collective portrait of everyday life in 1960s Chicago, and the groundbreaking force behind it
Renate Reinsve
The actress stars in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, Norway’s Oscar submission, which just earned a place on the Best International Feature Film short list
That’s Amore
For nearly 40 years, a little Italian nonprofit has worked toward a big goal: preserving the sanctity of Neapolitan pizza around the world. (San Marzano tomatoes only, please!)
The Other Royal Family
A new, unauthorized biography of the Beckhams mocks their gaucheness and condemns their collusion with the media—but it can’t deny their power
Risky Business
Pulitzer Prize–winning war correspondent Ray Bonner always had a taste for trouble, but he just took on his most dangerous assignment yet: he bought a bookstore in Australia
A CD-Player Odyssey
A stereo setup that even Stanley Kubrick could appreciate! Earbuds that will shock you! A gadget that will suck the air, but not the flavor, out of your food! And more …
Sophie Calle’s Lessons in Provocation
A genre-defying show in Minneapolis marks the French artist, memoirist, and voyeur’s first-ever North American retrospective
A Boy’s Best Friend …
At Andy Warhol’s suggestion—”she’s so-o-o interesting”—a biographer pulls back the curtain on the artist’s mother, an unsung painter in her own right
