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Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

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

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

Radical Chic

Virginie Despentes managed to get her film banned in French cinemas. With the U.S. release of two of her fieriest works, the feminist shows no signs of slowing down

The Big Sick

Tyler Mahan Coe

The man behind the podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones brought country music and its history to a new generation. Three years later, he’s back

Prodigious Young Women

From Kate Middleton to Samantha Cameron to Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, what is it about Marlborough College, the leafy British boarding school?

Annie Clark’s 70s Show

St. Vincent’s latest album, the 70s-themed Daddy’s Home, is releasing in a wave of bad P.R. It’s so good you’ll listen anyway

Tax-22

What happens when a $65 million Rauschenberg features an endangered bald eagle? Inside the secretive I.R.S. team that solves art’s riddles …

The Queen of Bohemia

André Carrilho’s Sketchbook

Halston’s Halcyon Days

The mononymous American designer behind Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat gets the ending he deserves in Ryan Murphy’s new series

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

On the Road Again

Tunes to complement your wanderlust, from Willie Nelson, the Coasters, Laura Nyro and Labelle, Van Dyke Parks, and more

Have You Heard Our Podcast?

It’s the show that will open your eyes. All you need to do is open your ears

Singer, Dancer, Marcher, Spy

Josephine Baker broke barriers onstage and off—from Jim Crow Miami to the royal court of Monaco

A Bigger Splash

Venice’s oldest families are up in arms over a law that bars them from participating in this year’s Biennale. Expect protest on a grand scale

Murder, They Wrote

How Do You Say “Avant-Garde” in Spanish?

Photographs by Ramón Masats chronicle the decade that revolutionized Spain