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Grant Shaffer’s Sketchbook

An Étoile Is Born

Johnny Depp’s Never-Ending Toxic Trail

His reputation imperils a movie about how a Japanese chemical company poisoned children in the 1950s

The Sonic Route

Savor every second of this fast-waning summer with songs by Fred Neil, Angélique Kidjo, Patsy Cline, Paul Brady, and more

Murder, They Wrote

Chicks Ahoy!

When in Rome …

And All That Jazz

Look back at Bert Stern’s classic film, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, which next week comes out in a sparkly new restoration

Ready-to-Wear

A Conversation with Stephen Fry

Plus: a look at the scandal rocking the Vatican

Burn After Listening

A discreet, ultra-cool music festival in Garbicz, Poland, could blow Burning Man out of the water

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Techno King of Tesla

Elon Musk may dislike being C.E.O. of the car company, but he wants to remain in power

Dan White

Hollywood’s favorite magician reappears on … Zoom?

Opera Pick of the Week

From the Boston Lyric Opera, a never-before-released video of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt

Tears in Heaven

The George Harrison–Pattie Boyd–Eric Clapton love triangle is one for the ages. But were Boyd and Clapton doomed from the start?

Love in the Time of Márquez

The Glass Menagerie

From Czech sea creatures to Venetian vessels to contemporary sculptures, exhibitions across the world take glass art in delightfully different directions

India’s Lost Worlds

Billy Howle


Alongside The Crown’s Josh O’Connor and Normal People’s Paul Mescal, the actor leads a new generation of self-made stars

Gold Standards

Yachts, mansions, Qianlong-dynasty vases … Does anyone live quite as lavishly as these Hong Kong actresses?

Designing Woman

Julia Haart, the star of My Unorthodox Life, discusses how she rebuilt her life starting at age 43

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Undoing