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Does Bill Gates Have a Camilla Problem?

And will a jilted Melinda plot revenge with the First Wives of Tech Club?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Shamier Anderson

The actor toughed it out in L.A. until he got his big break. Now he’s giving back with a nonprofit that encourages aspiring actors in Toronto’s inner city

Opera Pick of the Week

A digital reboot of the Houston Grand Opera’s Marian’s Song features a libretto by the city’s first Black poet laureate

Flying Lessons

The author of a new book on Virgin Galactic didn’t have to look far for inspiration—like Virgin’s lead test pilot, his dad was a fighter pilot and Top Gun grad

Middle Ages Crisis

Fifty Shades of Downing Street

A British aide who worked with Dominic Cummings on the Brexit campaign is writing an erotic novel based on her time in politics

André Carrilho’s Sketchbook

Déjà Voodoo

Reggae covers of non-reggae songs that will make you think twice, from John Holt, Peter Tosh, Marcia Griffiths, Alton Ellis, and more

Afternoon of a Fawn

An audio play re-creates what went down when Dame Edith Sitwell met Marilyn Monroe

Where the Magic Happens

Beatrice Monti della Corte has been welcoming writers to her villa in Tuscany for what feels like forever. Ralph Fiennes and Edmund White recount the extraordinary experience of being there

We’re Crashing at Clooney’s

Where do you want to go, now that Europe is welcoming vaxxed Americans?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Going South

Crime and No Punishment

Opera Pick of the Week

The Los Angeles Opera mounts a rare revival of Joseph Bologne’s L’Amant Anonyme with a cast from its young-artists program

Bourgeois Fever

A long career. A merciless eye. Implacable life force. In museums and galleries, Louise Bourgeois is the queen to Picasso’s king

Where Art and Architecture Meet

An interview with the Italian designer Vincenzo de Cotiis, whose savagely sleek work fuses art and architecture with interior design

The Turing Enigma

Nearly 70 years after being prosecuted for homosexuality, Alan Turing is joining the Queen on Britain’s £50 note. His nephew warns that the code breaker wouldn’t have wanted to be seen as a victim

Heroes and Villains

What happens when you discover your heroine was a vile anti-Semite?

Soul-Searching

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

What if … the Queen Enters the Dating Scene?

Single and ready to mingle

Broadway’s Light