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The New Books People Are Obsessing Over

Arts and books editor Julia Vitale joins Ashley and Mike to talk about one of their favorite subjects: What are you reading?

Dance Is Back!

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Street Cars Named Desire

Citroëns, Corvettes, and a bright-blue Fiat 500 get their due in a new book collecting the coolest classic cars

Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

Opera Pick of the Week

A new production of Aribert Reimann’s Lear premieres at the Bavarian State Opera

Background Check

The story of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s greatest detective, goes well beyond Christie’s own

The Measles of Middle Age

Hopping Around

Coming of age in the Roaring Twenties, the heirs to the Guinness-beer fortune favored dance and drink over careers and philanthropy

Joséphine in Paris

Through the Looking Glass

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

What if … Gordon Ramsay Were Your Office Manager?

Where Photography and Fashion Meet

A new volume unites the work of two greats: the photographer Peter Lindbergh and the couturier Azzedine Alaïa

The Great Escape

How Nixon and Brando prevented another massacre at Wounded Knee—and allowed American Indian leader Dennis Banks to run free

Lucky No. 13

At Home in the World

Odes to the Office

Dying to return to your place of work? (Or are you back in the office and doing your dying there?) Herewith, a collection of songs that will make you feel better in either case

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

The Podcast People Are Talking About

Morning Meeting is where the conversation begins. Listen in!

Opening the Floodgates

Everything you need to know about Bill and Melinda Gates’s divorce—and then some

Opera Pick of the Week

Bulgaria’s native son Orlin Anastasov shines in the Sofia Opera’s outdoor Attila

Deeper Than the Deep Blue Sea

An exhibition at the Fondation Carmignac’s Mediterranean villa focuses on the colors, movement, and creatures of the sea

Decoding Dickens