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Water Falling at Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest achievement is suffering from a bad case of nominative determinism

Take the A+ Train

Homer’s Heroines

She Come Groovin’ Up Slowly

How Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the wife of the infamous psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary, sparked one of the Beatles’ greatest hits

Rosa Esteva’s Guide to Majorca

The fashion designer and founder of Cortana shares her favorite spots on the island she calls home

A Pragmatic Progressive’s Lament

Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of the Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on free speech, protests, and liberalism

The Bureau of Unbelievable Statistics

Who better to be Trump’s data czar than the disgraced former congressman George Santos?

The Price of Being a Kennedy

The show-runner and producer of a new documentary series ask, Why is the world still obsessed with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy?

Love in the Time of Content Creators

On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David tells us how Gen Z has taken all the fun out of wedding proposals

Bright Young Things

Wet Hot American Summer

The backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol. And this summer, it’s more fetishized than ever

A Match Made in Dance Heaven

For the first time, Manhattan’s Joyce Theater organizes its Ballet Festival around a single choreographer, Jerome Robbins, in a program curated by Tiler Peck, a principal dancer at New York City Ballet

Corey Mylchreest

With starring roles in the romantic comedy My Oxford Year and the Julie Delpy–led political thriller, Hostage, the 27-year-old actor is spearheading the revival of Cool Britannia

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Back from the Dead

Jim Marshall’s Grateful Dead photos, capturing the calm and chaos of the 1960s rock ’n’ roll scene, are collected in a new coffee-table book

Hex and the City

Jonathan Mahler reveals how the late 1980s in the city foreshadowed this year’s mayoral race—and the Trump presidency

That’s Entertainment!

At the Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger without tears

Manifest Industry

Eighty years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a new book looks back at the American factories that manufactured its crucial minerals on an unprecedented scale

A Revolutionary Spirit

Kelly Wearstler’s Guide to Los Angeles

The interior designer shares her favorite spots in her adopted city

Fernanda Amis’s Sketchbook

Tenn out of Tenn

Svenskt Tenn, the Stockholm-based design company shaped by Estrid Ericson and Josef Frank, celebrates its centennial with an archival coffee-table book

The Spy Who Came In from the Burning Picassos

Working undercover for the French Resistance, Rose Valland witnessed the Nazis’ destruction of 500 precious artworks

Strangers in the Night

Spin Cycle, a one-act play about two people crossing paths at a laundromat, premieres in New York