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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Game Changer

Jung Ho-yeon has become the breakout star of Squid Game, and the new face of South Korea

When Trump Trumps Logic

Books on Donald Trump’s narcissism, by Michael Wolff, and financial misdeeds, by David Cay Johnston, sound a familiar alarm. Will people listen?

Opera Pick of the Week

What’s better, sex or salvation? Tannhäuser, Wagner’s schizophrenic singer of courtly love songs, simply cannot decide

Middle Men

21st-Century Churchill

Faulty-Hearts Club

How Baby Fae, the 1980s infant who survived for several days with a baboon heart, paved the way for innovative new approaches to organ donation

Monica Ahanonu’s Sketchbook

We’ll Always Have Fabio

How does a certain bronzed male model with free-flowing golden hair stay relevant? By remaining every bit himself … and sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber

Guilty Treasures

Allow yourself to indulge in these songs from Carly Rae Jepsen, the Guess Who, Stephen Bishop, Cher, and more

Brain Teaser

New Woman, Old Baggage

He’s More than Logan Roy

In his new memoir, Brian Cox recounts his journey from growing up poor in Scotland to ruling Succession

The Podcast You Need to Hear

From scheming patriarchs to the world’s best pizza, we’ve got it all this week

Hidden Gems

Susan Soon He Stanton

The playwright and screenwriter takes us into the Succession writers’ room

Chic Korea

Squid Game, Parasite, BTS—there’s a “K-” revolution afoot, and for once that prefix isn’t followed by “ardashian”

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

Underneath the Velvet Underground

Todd Haynes turns to documentary to get at the heart of Lou Reed’s 1960s New York City band

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Space Cadet

William Shatner goes where no actor has gone before

Opera Pick of the Week

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

Palace Intrigue