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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

Monica Ahanonu’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’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

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

Space Cadet

William Shatner goes where no actor has gone before

Hidden Gems

Chic Korea

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

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

Petty Clash

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

Amor Towles

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

Cosmic Yuri

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

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

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

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

Murder, They Wrote

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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