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Confessions of a 10-Percenter

With the arrival of the English version of Call My Agent!, a real one shares tales of what life is really like behind the screams

Disney Is Not Mickey Mousing Around

Revealed: the Magic Kingdom’s secret plans to retaliate against Florida governor Ron DeSantis

Lydia Leonard

The actress reprises Camille Cottin’s role in Ten Percent, the British remake of the hit French show Call My Agent!

Getting the Picture

Practice Makos Perfect

Christopher Makos showed Andy Warhol how to use his first camera. He also cemented Warhol’s existence as the personification of the “American brand”

Herbie Fully Loaded

In an excerpt from his new book, the author remembers unleashing his father, a well-known negotiator, on a professor he hated

The Man in the Black Turtleneck

A hit at the Santa Fe Opera in 2017, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs has its video premiere in a new production from Atlanta

Touching Base

The effect of Jackie Robinson on the lives of average Americans of color is well documented. But he was instrumental for other baseball players of color, too

Old Flames

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a biography of the American painter Winslow Homer; a little-told story about Benjamin Franklin; and a memoir turned meditation on books

Child’s Play

Nicolas Party’s techno-colored art is on view in Canada. In an interview, the artist discusses fairy tales, nature, and the power of pastel

Murder, They Wrote

Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Lost Fans of CNN+

Management snuffed the new network after 32 days. Yet there were plenty of fans out there!

Sergey Elkin

The Sages of Montecito

Harry and Meghan offer Netflix some business tips

Spires, Squires, and Liars

A contemporary of Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s traces Brexit, and the state of politics in Britain today, back to 1980s Oxford

Shady Lady

Ways of Escape

A Grand Tour of Italy, but Make It Modern

The intimate, under-the-radar homes and studios of 20th-century Italian architects, artists, and designers, from Achille Castiglioni and Gae Aulenti to Giorgio Morandi, are as stunning as the country’s ancient and Renaissance treasures. And they’re open to the public

Tom Blyth

The British actor went from sidewalk charity campaigner to the star of a new series on Billy the Kid

A Guide to the Venice Biennale