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Shvo Me the Money! The outsize developer Michael Shvo has lost his crown jewel—the Transamerica Pyramid—and is battling former friends, aggrieved partners, and angry tenants. He’s survived spectacular reversals before. Can he rise again?

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The Cult of Leto He has acted in everything from American Psycho to House of Gucci. Now Jared Leto stands accused of impropriety by nine women


J.F.K.’s Final Failure In Kennedy’s Coup, Jack Cheevers reveals how one of John F. Kennedy’s final decisions plunged America into the worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th century

Letters from Scamelot In her latest party report, Caroline Calloway flees a poetry reading, crosses paths with an old flame at a Paris Review party, and takes a divorced single dad to the Lower East Side’s buzziest nightclub

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The Love Story Hollywood Just Can’t Quit Robert Hofler’s history of Hollywood’s favorite love story traces its various incarnations, from Judy Garland’s 1954 musical to Bradley Cooper’s recent remake

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The Art of War A new book collects Lee Miller’s photographs of the Blitz, a time when the American, with no permit to work yet still holding a tourist visa, turned her camera to a Britain under fire

The Man Who Made the Beatles Under Brian Epstein’s guidance, the Beatles traded dodgy Liverpool clubs for the world’s greatest stages. But the manager’s private life was a far more tragic tale


Some Like It Sleek Clean lines, open plans, boxy silhouettes … a new coffee-table book traces how the eastern tip of Long Island became the proving ground for American modernism

At 150, the Bayreuth Festival Welcomes AI—and a White Elephant Katherina Wagner gives great-grandad Richard’s legacy another makeover

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Air Supply

Summer in the City Everything you need for staying put and making it look entirely intentional

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School for Scoundrels Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling

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Flipping ’Ell!

Postmortem of a Marriage

An American Tragedy in London