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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Around the World with Oscar Wilde

Following in Wilde’s footsteps, from his birthplace of Dublin to the Peloponnese, the American Midwest, and the prison he spent the better part of two years in

In London, Love (and Much More) Is in the Air

Frieze returns to town and gets the city hopping

Opera Pick of the Week

If you liked The Bride of Frankenstein, you’ll love Charles Gounod’s Gothic thriller La Nonne Sanglante

Amor Towles

The A Gentleman in Moscow author shares the American classics he read while preparing to write his latest novel, The Lincoln Highway

Palace Intrigue

Petty Clash

The left-leaning Paul Samuelson and right-leaning Milton Friedman went to their graves disagreeing with each other over economics

Cosmic Yuri

A new biography details the life of Yuri Soloviev, the best ballet dancer you’ve never heard of

Survival Instinct

The creator of the dystopian South Korean horror series Squid Game explains the origins of the most streamed show on Netflix

Murder, They Wrote

Country Comfort

Country songs for aficionados and newcomers alike, from Gary Stewart, Kacey Musgraves, Eric Church, Glen Campbell, and more

La Dolce Marina

A documentary on the Italian film producer Marina Cicogna, who worked with everyone from Sergio Leone to Franco Zeffirelli, premieres in Rome

A Walk on the Wild Side

Eight questions with Susan Orlean, the writer portrayed by Meryl Streep in Adaptation, whose new book explores our interactions with animals

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

M.I.6 and All That

Swans Along Fifth Avenue

A new book feeds our continuing fascination with Truman Capote—and the society beauties he loved and hated

A Day in the Life

As the 1970 classic Beatles film, Let It Be, gets recut by The Lord of the Rings’ Peter Jackson, its filmmaker tells how it all came to be

Welcome to “The Grifted Age”!

From Elizabeth Holmes to Adam Neumann to the Dopesick Sacklers, we’re all getting royally fleeced

A Classicist at Heart

Whatever it might mean for him to “play the race card,” the tenor Russell Thomas isn’t having any

Honor Titus

Rather than go to art school, the musician turned painter apprenticed with his idols. Now he’s Frieze’s brightest star

We’ll Always Have Paris

Photographs highlight the city’s boutiques, studios, and ateliers that have withstood the test of time

No Time to Di

The filmed Broadway show Diana: The Musical is now streaming on Netflix and it’s so bad … it’s worse than Cats

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

Opera Pick of the Week

From San Francisco Opera, a bold new reading of Beethoven’s soul-stirring political thriller Fidelio