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State of Grace

The Draper Touch

The 20th-century decorator Dorothy Draper transformed the interiors of Manhattan’s Carlyle hotel, West Virginia’s Greenbrier, and more with her signature Hollywood Regency style

The Eternal Quadrangle

From Rome, a sumptuous revival of Verdi’s early corker Ernani

To the Right

Putin Confidential

Eight questions with Philip Short, the author of a new Putin biography, on the Russian president’s early years—and what Bill Browder got wrong

Bad Moon Rising

Touch of Evil

Ivana Trump, Rehab, and Me

Writer Ivana Lowell reveals what she learned from the woman who escaped Donald Trump

Out of This World

Ghana’s buzziest young artist talks finding inspiration for his supernatural paintings

French Exit

Five titans of the Parisian literati have left one of the city’s most distinguished publishing houses, amid accusations that Sarkozy is now pulling the strings

A History of Cool

Slick Rick, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J … Janette Beckman photographed them all, chronicling New York’s creative set from the 80s to today

Danielle Kosann’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Rehabilitating Mozart

When Peter Sellars and Teodora Currentzis shook up Salzburg with La Clemenza di Tito

Arsenic and Old Lace

Staff Picks

This week, don’t miss the tale of one hospital’s pandemic triumphs and screwups; a searing account of Kabul’s fall; and a history of the Getty dynasty

Once More, with Feeling

Alan Cumming stars in a documentary about a 30-year-old Scotsman who went back to high school, posing as a 16-year-old student

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Sketchbook

Milton Avery, Re-Discovered

The Pig League

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Old Man and the Son

The Only Podcast You Need

How did menopause suddenly get so sexy? We’ve got answers. Plus, Errol Morris on Donald Trump

Making Banksy

A new book compiles graffiti by the elusive street artist, from the 1990s to today