When Larry McMurtry Met the Merry Pranksters The biographer of the pre-eminent Texas chronicler recounts an infamous encounter with Ken Kesey’s gang of LSD enthusiasts, later immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“Serious Photographs Disguised as Entertainment” With the arrival of warmer weather, two new coffee-table books revisit the late Martin Parr’s wry pictures—and the environmental warning simmering beneath them
Latest Issue • Mar. 21, 2026
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No. 349
“I’m Cancelable. But I’m Not a Cat Killer”
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SLIDING DOORS, PRINCE ANDREW EDITION
HANNAH MONTANA HAS A COLD
DOWN BAD AND UNDER
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The View from Here
Considering an Alternate Reality Where Prince Andrew Became King e
Film and Television
Ella Stiller Proves the Funny Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Lies My Father Told Me Magazine maestro Tom Junod’s memoir In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means To Be a Man searches for the truth behind his larger-than-life father—and the myth of American manhood
Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a roadmap to saving America’s public high schools, a cartographer’s analysis of the Dark Ages, and a guide to coping with our most difficult emotions
Liza with a Zzz … We imagined we’d get more tales of self-destruction from Liza Minnelli’s memoir. What we get is more shocking, and sadder
Matisse’s Last Act An exhibition in Paris collects more than 230 works created by the French artist in his last decade, when illness confined him to a life in bed that sparked a spectacular burst of creativity
