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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Scientist of Sorrow

Opera Pick of the Week

Productions of the Holocaust-era Der Kaiser von Atlantis spanning both sides of the Atlantic, from the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Atlanta Opera

Any Woman’s Blues

King’s Gambit

The author of the definitive account of the abdication crisis of 1936 reveals new details about Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, and a covered-up assassination attempt

The Best Is Yet to Come

Delighted that things seem to be looking up in 2021? Celebrate and remain hopeful with these songs from Cher, Harry Belafonte, Cat Stevens, and more

Bugsy Siegel, Thespian

The notorious mobster behind the modernization of the Las Vegas Strip had a hidden ambition: to become a Hollywood star

Murder, They Wrote

Beyond “Dead White Men in Periwigs”

The Other Side of Britney Spears

Lili Anolik discusses what the new documentary gets wrong about the Princess of Pop

Far from Normal

Daisy Edgar-Jones achieved global success in the pop-culture juggernaut Normal People. What’s next?

Andrea Ferolla’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Time Regained

Publishing next month, the long-lost writings of Marcel Proust promise a window into the mind and work of the French writer

It’s Britney, B*tch

A slutty-uniform-wearing Britney Spears sealed her fate as the Princess of Pop at just 16. All these years later, we’re still in her thrall

Con Artistes

Arab Baroque

Nicholas Jarecki

The screenwriter and director tackles the opioid crisis with his new thriller, Crisis

Opera Pick of the Week

The Met Opera honors Dmitri Hvorostovsky with seven nights of streamed performances, including Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, with Renée Fleming

The Real Thing?

Life in the Portal

Record High

How did Warner Bros. Records land the Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, and Prince?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

His Younger and More Vulnerable Years