A Quantum Leap Year
Take a quantum computer for a spin in Glastonbury! Find out what’s going to happen a trillion years from now! Use your Apple Watch to speak another language! And more …
Leave the Gun, Take the Cocktail
In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, a maître d’hôtel for Brooklyn’s River Café recalls getting on the wrong side of a mobster from the Gotti crime family—and how he lived to tell the tale
Golden Girl
As extraordinary corruption allegations whirl around Senator Robert Menendez, his wife, Nadine, has been revealed as the so-called brains of the operation
The Making of Ai Weiwei
A new coffee-table book traces the artist’s humble beginnings in China, the exiles and travel bans he endured, and the radical works he created along the way
The Devil’s in the Details
From Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God to the novels of Elena Ferrante—where has this insatiable appetite for all things Naples come from?
A Feminist Frankenstein
Director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara discuss their new film, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a child-woman like no other
The Real Larry David
A new book on the making of Curb Your Enthusiasm offers rare insight into its creator, from his pre-Seinfeld misery to his lifelong friendship with Richard Lewis
Painting the White House Orange
In an interview, authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser discuss Trump’s indictments, his similarities with Putin, and what a 2024 election could look like
