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Downton Drabby

In a new podcast, the Duchess of Rutland confirms there’s more to being aristocratic than shooting weekends and idle gossip

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

What If … Your Dentist Was Marjorie Taylor Greene?

City of Dreams

Fran Lebowitz Has a Few Things to Say …

The inimitable New Yorker on lockdown, Trump, outdoor dining, and more

The Masculine Mystique

Everyone wants a piece of Harry Styles

Adam Hugill

The 23-year-old went from training camp in Yorkshire to acting in Sam Mendes’s 1917. Now Hugill stars in BBC America’s The Watch

Mitchell Johnson’s Sketchbook

Future Shock

Eight questions with Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction, whose new book contemplates the earth’s precarious future

Monochrome Mania

Opera Pick of the Week

The Metropolitan Opera’s 1983 production of Berlioz’s Les Troyens, starring Jessye Norman as Cassandra

Island in the Stream

Rapa Nui native Mahani Teave learned to play the piano on her island’s only instrument. Here, an interview with the classical pianist

Rivals on the Rails

Spy Games

The Grip of the Grape

Scaling Mount Whitman

Through years of research and introspection, an author asks, How did Walt Whitman write the poetry that we remember him by?

Good Grief

New exhibitions spotlight the work of Anselm Kiefer and Berlinde de Bruyckere, artists evoking the pain and mourning of today

Grand Illusions

Inside the world of social-media influencers, where likes are worth cash, followers can be bought, and anyone can be famous

Trump’s Presidential Library

Duncan Hannah’s Sketchbook

The Truman Show

He both mingled with and shredded high society. A new documentary asks: Who was Truman Capote, really?

Great Dane

With a new leading role in The Investigation, Pilou Asbaek confirms he’s one of Scandinavia’s most versatile actors

Ralph Fiennes Unearths His Heart

In The Dig, a movie for these days, the actor creates the anti-Voldemort, a man of kindness and compassion

Ripley’s Match

Richard Bradford’s new biography of Patricia Highsmith evokes a flawed genius who bridged crime writing and high literature