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Voice of a Generation

A one-woman spoken-word odyssey of Kurt Cobain’s life has captured the attention of critics, and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Golden Years

Naked Dating and the Millionaire Misogynist

Plus: why Buzz Bissinger is preparing to leave America

Freudian Tip

A new book suggests Sigmund Freud would not have been the father of psychoanalysis history remembers him as were it not for his wife, Martha

A Moveable Feast

A road trip along France’s Côte d’Azur, with stops at five 20th-century modernist houses along the way

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

This Quiz Makes Wordle Look Like Child’s Play

Let’s just hope you’re not a sizar

Bad Samaritans

From Glyndebourne, Ethyl Smyth’s ill-starred, tremendous The Wreckers (1906), at last in the original French

Shelf Life

Veteran book editors are getting pushed aside in the publishing industry’s mad dash for youth

Sin City

Child’s Play

For the past 25 years, South Park has been an equal-opportunity offender. One writer can’t get enough

Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook

A Big Show for a Big Week

Welcome to our 100th episode

Teacher’s Pet

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Floral Tribute

A dazzling new coffee-table book explores the flower in contemporary photography

Gold Standard

Elon Musk’s World Wide Web

Crimes of the Mind

How a journalist turned screenwriter stumbled onto the unbelievable but true story that became Rogue Agent

Kids Those Days

Second-Guessing Puccini

Live from Salzburg 2022, Asmik Grigorian takes on the trifecta Il Trittico

Playing for Both Teams

Carrying on Abroad

Hell’s Angel