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Galley Envy

Could the most coveted object of the summer be an uncorrected manuscript you can’t even buy?

The “Ring” of Life

War of Words

Martin Cruz Smith

The crime novelist persevered through Parkinson’s disease for decades to create his richly imagined Arkady Renko series—including the final installment, Hotel Ukraine

Aatish Taseer’s Guide to Istanbul

The travel writer shares his go-to spots in one of his favorite cities

Charlotte Cardin

With her fame on the rise, the 30-year-old singer is staying true to her Quebecois roots

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Breaking Bad

An exhibition in Berlin showcases the radical, experimental paintings and photographs of the 20th-century German artist Marta Astfalck-Vietz

George Butler’s Sketchbook

Cinephilia, Italian-Style

How a film festival showing nothing but old movies became an international hit

Elonophobia

That’s it. I’ve had it

The Grift of His Friendship

On this week’s podcast, Jane Boon reveals the man she thought she knew … but didn’t

Exit, Pursued by Applause

The hit-making artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater—André Bishop—steps down after 33 years

A Grand Scale

Paris’s Grand Palais has undergone a $546 million renovation that could well turn it into an attraction to rival the Eiffel Tower

A Hungarian in Paris

A new coffee-table book collects Brassaï’s photographs of the City of Light, his adopted home and muse for more than 50 years

Lessons in Activism

Eastwood Bound

Clint Eastwood has dominated Hollywood for longer than most anyone else—all while containing countless contradictions

Superman’s Homecoming

Will a divided America embrace the return of a kind superhero long known for championing peace and standing with immigrants?

Up Close and Personal

Heartbeat Opera posts its acclaimed Salome on YouTube

Moving Mountains

The first American woman to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen explains how she did it—and why

Lisa’s Mystery Picks

This week, don’t miss a whodunit set on Catalina Island, an Audrey Hepburn–meets–Agatha Christie murder mystery, and a new Tom Thorne police procedural

Treasure Trove

Confiscated by the Nazis during the Second World War, works by everyone from Cézanne to Picasso collected by a Jewish Holocaust survivor go on show in Australia

The Making of A View to a Kill

Forty years ago, a less than sprightly Roger Moore made his final appearance as 007, alongside Christopher Walken and Grace Jones

Elliott Erwitt’s Last Hurrah

A new coffee-table book celebrates the photographer’s eye for life’s absurdities