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Design Within Reach

Architect Lina Ghotmeh is sprucing up the Serpentine Gallery, just in time for its big summer party

Everyone’s Mad as Hell and No One’s Taking It Anymore

On this week’s podcast, Bruce Handy tells us how the 2020s have become the Raging 20s

Summer Time

Eleven years after Donna Summer’s death, the Queen of Disco’s collection of lavish costumes, gold records, and handwritten lyrics will go up for auction at Christie’s

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a retelling of Western history through 14 thinkers, a deep dive into the places that define Manhattan, and an exploration of private space travel

Tall Tales

How super-tall, pencil-thin buildings are changing Manhattan’s classic skyline

Kathryn Bromwich

How a bout of long COVID during the height of the pandemic gave way to a London editor’s debut novel

Bons Mots and Bad Turns

Owning the Lits

Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?

Should You Move to Athens? (All the Cool Kids Are)

On this week’s podcast: Greece’s new hot spot, an Oscars mess, and the man who may take down Putin

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Last Hurrah

A new book collects the 1980s party photographs of Dafydd Jones, chronicler of British high society at its most riotous, just as that world was coming to an end

Back to the Beginning

Lunch with Douglas Brinkley

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the historian talks about his plan with Sean Penn to save the world, Silent Spring Revolution, and why starting small isn’t such a bad thing when it comes to environmental work

DeSantis Campaign Contributors

He reportedly raised more than $8 million within 24 hours of announcing his candidacy for president. Just who the hell is giving Ron DeSantis all this money?

On Targets

In 1968, Peter Bogdanovich directed his first film, about what was then an uncommon event: a mass shooting. It haunted him to the end

The Diary of Hannah Goslar

In an excerpt from her memoir, Anne Frank’s closest childhood friend recalls the years leading up to their deportations, and their against-all-odds reunion

Joni Mitchell’s Second Act

David Downton’s Sketchbook

The Show Won’t Go On

A screenwriter’s dispatch from the Writers Guild of America picket line

Unto Us a Child Is Born

At the National Theatre, The Book of Dust is a lite prequel to His Dark Materials

Spring Migration

The Ghanian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey brings an iteration of his “Afrogallonism” series to the Venice Architecture Biennale

The Name’s Bond … Woke Bond

In an interview, Charlie Higson discusses his new Bond novel and how he adapts the womanizing spy for our times

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss David Remnick’s collected profiles of musicians, a new biography of Martin Luther King Jr., and the story of two poets’ wartime friendship

Hidden Gems

For decades, Anne Eisenhower, the granddaughter of President Eisenhower, collected rare and magnificent jewelry. Now it’s going up for auction at Christie’s