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Caio Twombly

The 26-year-old curator spotlights young artists at his new East Village gallery

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Whine O’Clock

Just in time for next week’s return of Archetypes … What if Meghan Markle and First Lady Imelda Marcos reclaimed the word “diva” and didn’t kiss any frogs?

Murder, They Wrote

Mystery books past and present honor Queen Elizabeth II and the kingdom she leaves behind

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

The Anxiety of Assimilation

The powerful new play Leopoldstadt mirrors its author’s journey from Tomáš Sträussler to Tom Stoppard

How a Rollicking New Play Came to Be

John Lithgow and Douglas McGrath take us inside the making of their new Off Broadway show

Surveying Cézanne

Seriously Stevie

Back to the Future

Anthony Bourdain’s Last Days, Revisited

How the chef’s biographer got past the guardrails of France’s Le Chambard hotel and into the room where Bourdain took his last breath

Turning Point

Patrice Chéreau’s “Centennial Ring” at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976 changed history

Mind Games

The New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv, whose debut book is out now, discusses mental illness in its many forms

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a look back at the 1920s’ most transfixing murder, the final installment of a three-part history of Napoleon, and a robust argument for prison reform

Memories of Mantel

Hilary Mantel’s longtime editor remembers the singular talent and warm generosity of the writer who brought us the Thomas Cromwell trilogy

Fernando Casablancas

The model and artist makes his TV debut in a reality show about downtown Manhattan’s creative class

The Dark Side of Social-Media Influencers

Plus: Is New York still the city that never sleeps?

Star Quality

The Shock of the New

Abbott and Costello Go to Bat Against Monkeypox

And the result is a comedy of errors

Lauren Tamaki’s Sketchbook

Their Back Pages

The Byrds invented folk rock and went on to become founding fathers of psychedelic rock, jazz rock, and country rock. A new book revisits the band’s mid-60s prime

The Last Laugh

Fawlty Towers could never be made today. But 47 years after it premiered, the show still perfectly captures a certain type of small-minded, social-climbing, xenophobic Englishman who is now all but extinct

Night at the Opera

The little-known story of two British spinsters who saved dozens of Jewish musicians during World War II—and the Viennese star composer who helped them do it