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Did a Doomed Love Inspire the Eiffel Tower?

It’s a symbol of romance, but the designer was motivated by other emotions

Danielle Kosann’s Sketchbook

Shape-Shifting

Building Castles in the Air

Photographs highlight the revolutionary work of today’s leading women architects

Post-Babylon Berlin

He Screams, She Screams

Murder, They Wrote

Treasure Island

Digital Liberation

The Internet can be a dangerous place for women. But it has also powered a revolutionary global movement for women’s rights

Match Made in Hell, Part II

What would you do if the man you were sleeping with turned out to be a psychopath on the U.K.’s most-wanted list?

Jamie Lee Curtis’s Notes on (Summer) Camp

She’s got a new Audible series … and thoughts on what is scary

Tracks of Your Tears

Feeling down even though things are looking up? You’re certainly not alone. Allow yourself some time to run the full gamut of emotions, with songs from Lana Del Rey, Roy Orbison, Julie London, Dr. John, and more

Lisa Lloyd

The British artist making intricate birds, butterflies, and flowers out of just two materials: paper and card

Marie Antoinette’s Spirit Animals

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Once upon a Time …, Cont’d.

Risko’s Sketchbook

Family Drama Writ Large (and Glamorous)

Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love gets a fresh spin, this time starring Dominic West and Lily James

O’Keeffe O’Clock

New York City street scenes meet oversize flowers and the American West in a sweeping survey of Georgia O’Keeffe’s epic work

Pilgrimage to 19th-Century Italy

The Wave of the Future Is Female

Tracing the male-dominated history of surfing to its women-wave-rider roots

Graham Norton Has a New Story

The comedian and talk-show host discusses his new novel—and whom he wants to interview next

Opera Pick of the Week

From the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Opéra de Lille, Debussy’s enigmatic Pelléas et Mélisande in a yin-yang pair of new productions

Opera Pick of the Week

Virtual by necessity, the Los Angeles Opera’s shadow-puppet Œdipus Rex capitalizes on artistic techniques refined during the pandemic