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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Kathryn Bromwich

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

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

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

Dad Jokes

The best thing on the Internet just may be Michael Keaton’s Instagram account

The War That Never Ended

Fifty years after the last American troops left, Vietnam is thriving. The U.S., meanwhile, is still dealing with the aftermath—unconsciously or not

The Not-So-Nice Saint

Nelson Mandela was South Africa’s savior. His private life was another story

Addressing the Rat in the Room

It’s time the humans of New York City made a good-faith effort to understand their four-legged neighbors

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

The Final Countdown

In an interview, the historian Evan Thomas discusses how Russian spies, Harry Truman’s denial, and an immunity to writer’s block played into his new book, on the last days of W.W. II

Eminently Ridiculous

A Summer Odyssey

Emma Cline has communed with the Manson family and channeled Harvey Weinstein. For her new novel, she infiltrates the Hamptons

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

I Don’t Know How She Does It

Sally Wainwright, the creator of the hit British crime drama Happy Valley, captures the female experience like no other

Clash of the Traumas

What Went Down Inside Our Cannes Party

On this week’s podcast, the skinny on the big bash, Michael Keaton’s dad-tastic IG, and … N.Y.C. rats!

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Lee Friedlander, Framed

Collaborating with the cinematic photographer, the filmmaker Joel Coen is staging shows of Friedlander’s work on both coasts

In Search of Lost Homes

A road trip around France, with stops at the houses of literary stars Colette, George Sand, Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, and Victor Hugo along the way

Nick Pinkerton

A fixture of New York’s downtown film scene discusses writing the script for The Sweet East, starring Euphoria heartthrob Jacob Elordi, which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival

Down to Earth