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Let’s Get N.Y.C. Cooking Again!

Everyone’s hungry to get back to normal. Here’s how. Plus: looking for Prince William; bad behavior in paradise; and more

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

HBO’s new documentary on the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll tells an inspiring story of survival

Rhiannon Giddens

The American singer’s new album is a moving ode to the pleasures and losses of a year in lockdown

Off the Wall

The photographer Horst A. Friedrichs celebrates the magic of independent booksellers and the volumes on their shelves, from the Strand to Shakespeare and Company

Famous-Parent Syndrome

The 20s’ Bonnie and Clyde

Post-Nature

Eight Questions with Nathaniel Rich, the novelist and author of Losing Earth, whose new book contemplates a return to the world we’ve ruined

Opera Pick of the Week

Sir David McVicar’s Met Opera staging of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as Britain’s first Queen Elizabeth

Sight and Sound

Eye on Dance, a weekly interview show that ran from 1981 to 2004, was required watching in the dance world. A special archival episode from 1986 is now available for streaming

Frankenthaler and Me

Searching for Helen Frankenthaler gets personal for an author whose past is intertwined with that of the great American artist

Re-writing History

Antony Beevor is trading the page for the screen, joining forces with Ridley Scott for a wide-ranging series on W.W. II’s final year

Notes from Under the Sheets

Tracing the pre–Crime and Punishment love affair of Dostoevsky and Polina Suslova, a young, dazzling Russian radical

Can You Face Life After Zoom?

Bobbi Brown on how to lose the “lockdown look.” Plus, the hottest new chef in Paris; a peek at the Oscar nominations; and more

Artists in Action

Soviet Russia meets Weimar Germany in these avant-garde posters and drawings of the early 20th century, a gift to MoMA from the Merrill C. Berman Collection

On Directing

Doctor’s Orders

Murder, They Wrote

Living for the City

A restaurateur shares his tracks to rebuild New York City to, from Bruce Springsteen, Sister Nancy, Gary Clark Jr., and more

A Sentimental Mood

Perhaps none of the arts have suffered from the pandemic more majorly than jazz. Until the post-vaccine Jazz Age arrives, try the next best thing: live recordings

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook II

What if … Ivanka and Meghan Ran Together in 2024?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook