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Call My Agent!

The French comedy featuring Monica Bellucci, Juliette Binoche, and other stars messing with their image is back

Space Odyssey

A book of photographs offers new ways of looking at architecture, its influence, and its surroundings

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Who’s That Girl?

Sorry, Joe—at Biden’s inauguration, all eyes were on poet Amanda Gorman

Do the Twist

More than 20 years after the puppeteer Basil Twist debuted his genre-defying response to Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” a film version is available for streaming

Big Little Life

Fans remember him as the boisterous R&B singer. But Little Richard had a complicated personal life—and leaves a profound legacy

Short List

What to read this week, including new books from Joan Didion and George Saunders, and a 1500s polar adventure gone wrong

The Talented Mrs. Highsmith

One hundred years after Patricia Highsmith’s birth, the Talented Mr. Ripley author’s life and work remain as appealing as ever. What’s her secret?

The Nanny Diaries

Kiley Reid worked as a babysitter in New York before fictionalizing her experience for the page. The resulting novel explores racism and liberal hypocrisy

Larger than Life

An exhibition pairing Henry Moore’s oversized sculptures and 70 of his drawings goes on show at the newly reopened Museo Novecento, in Florence

Three Lives

Class Clash

Mob Rule

A new documentary tracks the rise and fall of Vincenzo Muccioli, a well-intentioned rehab founder turned cult leader, Italian-style

The Most Famous Cop in Paris

For 15 years, Caroline Proust has been the center of Spiral, the French crime drama that’s a global hit

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Bygones and Begones

Music for the weary but hopeful, from Billy Preston, Lucinda Williams, Justin Townes Earle, Henry Thomas, and more

Race Against the Clock

The story behind J.F.K.’s 1960 victory is inextricably tied to M.L.K., his imprisonment, and the Kennedy team that helped free him

Can We Erase Trump?

On this week’s podcast, sharp-eyed AIR MAIL satirist Barry Blitt on four years of drawing That Guy … and how he might detox

Comic-Book Villain … or Severe-Acne Drug?

Do you know the difference?

A Treasure Story for Adults

The Dig tells the riveting tale of the most famous archaeological excavation in Britain in modern times

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Tintin and the Money

Rejected cover artwork by Hergé sells for a record-breaking $3.9 million, but the real drama is still unfolding

Look Naturelle

One Hundred Years of Fortitude