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Chiharu Shiota’s Guide to Osaka

The Japanese artist shares her favorite spots in her hometown

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch

This month’s best crime-fiction book and TV shows

The Road to 10/7

Inside the Danny Elfman Sexual-Harassment Story

On this week’s podcast, Jacob Bernstein discusses his reporting on the #MeToo case that has baffled Hollywood

Elon, Elon, Elon

The hazards of talking politics over dinner

Zen and the Art of Being Ruth Asawa

Coinciding with a major San Francisco exhibition, an updated biography of the sculptor chronicles her journey from Japanese-internment-camp prisoner to art-world pioneer

My Adventures in Journalism

In an interview, AIR MAIL Co-Editor Graydon Carter discusses Trump’s short fingers, the enduring magic of New York, and his memoir on the golden age of magazines

Loos Woman

The novelist who beat F. Scott Fitzgerald at his own game

Medardo Rosso’s Free Form

The amorphous sculptures of the 20th-century artist who was a friend of Renoir’s, a rival of Rodin’s, and a mentor to Brancusi go on view in Basel

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Mad About the Boy

In the Old Vic’s Present Laughter, Andrew Scott flips the script, sort of

Titans at War

A new book tells the inside story of an epic feud between Winston Churchill and U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a novel from a former New Yorker fact-checker, a history of NPR, and a portrait of one of the grandes dames of Impressionism

Emilia Wickstead’s Guide to Auckland

The New Zealand fashion designer shares her favorite spots in her home city

All Aboard the Hogwarts Express!

A “very, very specifically British 1990s production”: here’s everything we know so far about HBO’s eagerly awaited Harry Potter adaptation

Liz Caribel Sierra

The 27-year-old actress is bringing Dominican culture to the screen in Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice and Ridley Scott’s Dope Thief

The Mafia’s Dark Knights

With Robert De Niro playing both leading roles, Barry Levinson’s exhilarating The Alto Knights depicts the real-life clash of the Mafia titans Vito Genovese and Frank Costello

Play Ball!

Mobbed Up: The Two Faces of Robert De Niro

On this week’s podcast, Michael Sragow takes us inside the new mobster movie from Nick Pileggi and Barry Levinson

The Friend Zone

The author Sigrid Nunez on the film adaptation of her National Book Award–winning novel, starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and a Great Dane

Jack of All Trades

The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, presents its first Jack Whitten retrospective, celebrating the late artist’s lasting mark on everything from abstraction to sculpture and drawings

The British Are Coming!

Operation Mincemeat—the Olivier Award–winning West End musical about a W.W. II–era deception operation that fooled the Nazis—is taking Broadway by storm

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Adolescence—the harrowing British miniseries about a teenager charged with murder—is about every parent’s worst nightmare