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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Dan White

Hollywood’s favorite magician reappears on … Zoom?

The Techno King of Tesla

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

The Duchess of York’s Bodice Ripper

On the release of Fergie’s romance novel, we share a preview of what’s to come. Or so we think …

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

Donald Trump, Wedding Crasher

We can only imagine how brides react to seeing him at Mar-a-Lago

The Money Shot

Scottish photographer Albert Watson reveals the stories behind his best work

Designing Woman

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

Gold Standards

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

I Want My MTV!

On the 40th anniversary of the music-television channel, one of its co-founders remembers the songs that started it all

The Undoing

India’s Lost Worlds

A Woman Apart

Oedipus Complex

Inside the mind of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the Upper East Side golden boy who killed his own father

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook

Splendors in the Grass

Opera Pick of the Week

Streaming one night only, a new production of Tristan und Isolde from Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper with dream cast Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros

Short List

What to read in the coming weeks, from memoirs exploring masculinity and the cutthroat world of ballet to a look at the history and future of motion

WASP’s Nest

Terrified by the distinctly WASP-ish hell of lacking a life’s purpose, Cold War columnist Joe Alsop created a setting for his self-protective, civic-humanist fantasy