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Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

Country Comfort

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

Swans Along Fifth Avenue

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

M.I.6 and All That

We’ll Always Have Paris

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

Honor Titus

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

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

Welcome to “The Grifted Age”!

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

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Murder, They Wrote

A Classicist at Heart

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

Opera Pick of the Week

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

Bourdain Confidential

The longtime Parts Unknown producer remembers his off-screen moments with Anthony Bourdain

David Sedaris’s Diary

America’s comedian in England reveals more than 10 years’ worth of his inner thoughts

Follow Your Nose

The hunt for the world’s most expensive ingredient has led to surprising new places—but Big Truffle doesn’t want the word to get out

Once a Comic-Book Fan, Always a Comic-Book Fan

From Roy Thomas, who later succeeded Stan Lee, to George R. Martin, before he added the second R to his name, the fans stayed around

That 70s Book

Back to Blaxploitation

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

This Is Stevie Van Zandt

Cuomo in Exile

Home alone, the disgraced former governor of New York has a very busy daily to-do list

The Remains of the Day

A former Country Life editor explores the complicated history and enduring grandeur of Britain’s stately homes

The Real Slim Aarons

Kevin McClory, Mick Jagger, C. Z. Guest, and others feature in a collection of the photographer’s glamorous shots