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Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

And Five, Six, Seven, Eight!

Lovers of Sondheim bolted to this gritty piano bar in Greenwich Village to grieve—and sing!

The Full Jeff Dazzle

He’s 69 and has two kids under the age of 7, but Jeff Goldblum is busier than ever, thanks to a new Disney+ show

A Four de Force

The sole performer onstage, actor and director Ralph Fiennes brings T. S. Eliot’s words to life and into the now

Boeing’s Double Game

Why was a sole Boeing employee criminally charged in the 737 MAX debacle that cost 346 lives and at least $21 billion?

The Chosen Ones

Nanny Diaries

A new book tells the story of Vivian Maier, the 20th-century nanny who led a secret life as a street photographer

Song Cycle

Music that forms a world apart from this mad one, from Koko Taylor, Janis Joplin, Rod Stewart, Doug Sahm, and more

Garbo Lives

The Only Podcast You Need

Tune out the world and tune in to Morning Meeting

Sex on Wheels

Ahead of the premiere of And Just Like That…, A. A. Gill’s daughter remembers the Sex and the City bus tour of New York she embarked on with her dad

Making Trouble

A searing satire of the Black experience in the largely white New York theater, Trouble in Mind sees the light 66 years after it was written

Leading with the Chin

Free Solo’s Jimmy Chin discusses his latest film, his forthcoming book of photography, and why the Hamptons are the bane of his existence

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Crown of Thorns

A new book reveals the identity of the royal whom Meghan and Harry called out in their Oprah interview. Hint: he’s next in line to the throne

Virginie Efira

The Belgian actress gives a rattling performance as a manipulative nun in Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta

Opera Pick of the Week

Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad

Café Noir

Guitar Hero

B. B. King has been called “the world’s greatest blues singer.” A new book argues that his guitar riffs are just as influential

Flora Collins

The Brooklyn-based writer whose debut novel combines Freud, Jordan Peele’s Us, and her own upbringing

Suspect Protection Program

History’s largest-ever counterterrorism investigation enlisted efforts from the U.S., the U.K., and Pakistan. Why was its main suspect allowed to run free?

De-sensitization Station

Songs you think you know, from Bruce Channel, Dion, the Staple Singers, and more

Murder, They Wrote

Dreaming Big