Star-Crossed Lovers Carolyn Bessette’s biographer talks to the creator of Love Story, a new mini-series about her subject’s well-publicized marriage to J.F.K. Jr. and tragic death
Notes on an Aesthetic The quiet discipline of choosing well
Latest Issue • Feb. 14, 2026
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No. 344
Among the Van Gogh Truthers
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HARD-PRESSED
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Nutella
Everybody knows that Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and William Shakespeare were geniuses, but they seem to forget…
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Pretty in Pink
John Hughes’s classic coming-of-age rom-com Pretty in Pink turns 40 this month. Starring none other than Hughes’s teenage muse…
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Balenciaga
Cynics will say romance is dead and that Valentine’s Day is a front for consumer culture. But Balenciaga doesn’t care…
A Murder in Minneapolis Nordic author Jo Nesbø’s latest thriller, which follows a spree of killings in Minneapolis, comes as the real-life city is in upheaval
The Movie Brats For the past 50 years, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg have been collaborators, competitors, critics, and, most incredibly, close friends
The Last Great Media Mogul At 94, Rupert Murdoch—who just launched a new tabloid, California Post—is the last vestige of the golden age of press barons, from Hearst to Pulitzer
Lucian Freud’s Paper Trail A new London exhibition shifts the focus from the British artist’s famous paintings to his lesser-known, lifelong relationship with drawing
