Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss the inconvenient truth about breakfast cereal; Dan Jones’s history of forts, castles, and bunkers; and a trip to the locations behind your favorite films
Murder, They Wrote The strange sinking of a luxury ocean liner! A train hijacking en route to London! Disasters punctuate this fall’s best mysteries…
Latest Issue • Oct. 17, 2026
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Larry David
The Earl Making the Royals Squirm Charles Spencer’s new memoir of his sister, Princess Diana, serves up a royal rogues’ gallery—from King Charles’s alleged elation at her death to tales of a light-fingered Prince Philip
Horse Power With an introduction by Tracey Emin and works by Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, and Man Ray, a new coffee-table book examines centuries of art’s most enduring muse
Peak Television Scott Meslow’s A Place Both Wonderful and Strange goes inside the making of David Lynch’s surrealist drama, which counted Queen Elizabeth and Mikhail Gorbachev among its fans
“The Book Really Wanted to Sing All Along” The Metropolitan Opera presents the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo, an operatic adaptation of the 2017 novel by George Saunders
Crime and Scandal
