By Alec Lobrano
Most of the real-life restaurants that appear in films and television series about Paris are so resolutely mediocre. This artful ignorance READ ON
By Jennifer Noyes
Color is back. Not in the cautious “accent pillow” sense, but in the full-fledged, English-decorator READ ON
By Spike Carter
Loie Hollowell’s work exists somewhere between Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint, with perhaps a Robert Irwin–esque READ ON
A whole-earth catalogue.
Bears are attacking the Japanese! Snakes are attacking the Chinese! And other strange stories from around the globe …
By George Kalogerakis
As the Trump catastrophe—noxious! inhumane! global!—continues to soil and degrade everything it can, from the National Mall to the Middle East to Madison Square Garden, we remain steadfast, scanning the…
This week, don’t miss: the five Cambridge grads who spied for Stalin, how birds evolved from dinosaurs, and a W.W.II novel following two Black U.S. soldiers and a Jewish boy
By Jim Kelly
There is no more infamous spy ring than the Cambridge Five, the group of friends who met at Cambridge University in the 1930s, were recruited by Soviet agents, and then proceeded to feed intelligence…
By Eve Eismann
Summer Lovers (1982) is the cinematic embodiment of the song “Summer Nights,” from Grease (1978), which makes sense considering READ ON
A protester in Tehran waves an Iranian flag in front of a billboard depicting Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, May 5, 2026.
By Romesh Ratnesar
As Donald Trump’s ill-considered war on Iran slouches toward an endgame, spare a thought for the conflict’s biggest losers: the Iranian people. In early January, amid a crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations, Trump urged Iranians to “KEEP…
By Gracie Wiener
On a Tuesday afternoon in New York City —77 degrees Fahrenheit with a slight overcast—the day resembles Mark Rothko’s No. 11. READ ON
Victoria Beckham, Shakira, Georgina Rodríguez … In time for the World Cup, a look at the wives and girlfriends of soccer players who have long stolen the spotlight from the beautiful game
By Carolina de Armas and Ann Schneider
The Spice Girls’ requirements for any prospective lover were famously extensive—and perhaps a touch excessive. “Forget my past.” Sure. “Make it fast.” No…
By Sarah Hyde
Helen Bain writes like John Constable painted: each minute detail is observed and rendered, creating a complete and magnificent READ ON
By Jim Kelly
Liaquat Ahamed won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for Lords of Finance, his account of how four central bankers helped bring about READ ON
Dreaming in Pigalle: the Suite Dalí at Bus Palladium.
Serge Gainsbourg sang about it, Salvador Dalí arrived with a panther, and Mick Jagger celebrated his birthday there. Now Paris’s legendary nightclub Bus Palladium has a second act as a hotel
By Alexander Lobrano
Arriving at Bus Palladium at the end of a sunny spring afternoon, I was thrilled to see a familiar vertical, two-word…
By Spike Carter
**Under the Sun, Vol. 2, Ferrari **drifts between past and present and “between the roar of engines and the silence after ignition,” READ ON
A lawsuit claims that the character of Neytiri in Avatar was illegally based on the likeness of actress Q’orianka Kilcher.
A rousing tale of Indigenous resistance to corporate greed, James Cameron’s science-fiction franchise has grossed billions. Now it’s Cameron who stands accused of Native exploitation
By Petala Ironcloud
A vatar, which is still the highest-grossing movie of…
By Jeanne Malle
Those who give New York restaurants less than favorable reviews often sound like a broken record (“too expensive,” “too loud,” READ ON
A poster of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, seen amidst the rubble following a 7.8 earthquake in February of 2023.
What a decade in Erdoğan’s authoritarian Turkey taught me about the long, bloody shadow of America’s foreign wars
By Suzy Hansen
I decided to write my book From Life Itself in 2018 out of a sense of disorientation. I’d spent a decade living in Istanbul, Turkey,…
George Michael at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, where he received the Video Vanguard Award for the music videos from his debut solo album, Faith.
With songs like “Father Figure” and “Careless Whisper,” George Michael became the first white solo artist to lead the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart—re-drawing the boundaries of the genre forever
By Sathnam Sanghera
T
his year marks…
The filmmaker at work, in a still from Louis Malle, le Révolté.
A new documentary sheds fresh light on Louis Malle, the nouvelle vague contemporary whose films tackled complicated subjects with innocence and curiosity
By Joan Juliet Buck
Louis Malle, one of the most talented and controversial film directors of the 20th century, was drawn to taboos as surely as kids are drawn to…
By Jim Kelly
George Washington Plunkitt may not be the most corrupt politician in New York’s history, but thanks to READ ON
Bertrand Russell, the Nobel Prize–winning English philosopher and logician who studied and taught at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
By Tim Bouverie
Strange as it may seem in this philistine age, there was a time when academics were regarded as pillars of society. In Britain between the 1940s and the 1980s, university professors, especially those from Oxford and Cambridge, were…
The death of Isak Andic has caused chaos at Mango—which is not the only Spanish fashion dynasty to fall victim to a succession drama.
After the billionaire founder of the fast-fashion label plunged to his death on a Catalan mountain trail, his ineffectual heir became a prime suspect
By Katie Gatens
Wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a tweed blazer, Isak Andic didn’t look much like a…
Mum’s the word.
As police broaden their inquiries into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, his biographer argues that the royal family—and the officials surrounding it—have spent years suppressing the full story
By Andrew Lownie
The man formerly known as Prince Andrew may be sweating this weekend. On Thursday documents concerning his appointment as the special representative for trade in…
“My parents realized that if one is to truly cultivate a passion for something, one needs to arrive at that on their own.”
The son of the art dealer Edmondo di Robilant spent years forging his own path through the art world. Now, at 30, he’s helping steer the newly independent Robilant gallery into a new era
By Jeanne Malle
When the art dealer Edmondo di Robilant co-founded Robilant…
By Catherine Scott
I have no business (and even less desire) to be in thekitchen, but these Spanish knives make a compelling READ ON
“So many were looking at it as a second home to their homes in the Hamptons.”
Seemingly undeterred by record real-estate prices on the eastern tip of Long Island, the ultra-wealthy are complementing their second homes with … more homes
By Andrew Zucker
Every summer, the .1 percent packs their cars—or their helicopters—and ventures to the eastern tip of Long Island. For many, that…
By Paulina Prosnitz
Heywood Hill, the storied Mayfair bookstore known to be the favorite of magazine royalty (Graydon Carter, Anna Wintour) READ ON
By Alec Lobrano
“Summer is such a rich season for cookingLebanese food, because our kitchen contains so many salads and grain and vegetable dishes READ ON
Marilyn Monroe, photographed by George Barris on Santa Monica Beach, 1962. It would be her final photo session.
Marilyn Monroe continues to fascinate us a century on, because we’re still trying to figure her out
By Kim Morgan
It’s July 13, 1962, and there’s Marilyn Monroe on the beach in Santa Monica with a curious expression. I’m looking at her right now. Her blond hair is mussed,…
Trump has pardoned thousands of people in return for barely disguised bribes. But in Jho Low, the flamboyant fugitive behind the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB fraud, he may have hooked his biggest fish yet
By Jennifer Gould
It was only a matter of time before Taek Jho Low asked the White House for a pardon. Low, the Malaysian-born Wharton School dropout, better known as Jho Low, is…
By Eve Eismann
Don’t let this silent film’s 1920 release date deter you: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari will have you READ ON
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