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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Are You Savvier than a 16-Year-Old?

More than five million fans follow Sissy Sheridan. What does she know that you don’t? Plus: the great Lego caper, and more

Opera Pick of the Week

American soprano Julia Bullock presents a virtual recital alongside pianist Laura Poe

Do You Believe in Magic?

A new book argues that some of the most astonishing findings in social science are little more than smoke and mirrors

One Part Instinct, Two Parts Grit

Sharon Stone discusses sexism in Hollywood, the plastic surgery she didn’t agree to, and a near fistfight with Basic Instinct co-star Michael Douglas

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Hole in the Wall

Post-Nature

Eight Questions with Nathaniel Rich, the novelist and author of Losing Earth, whose new book contemplates a return to the world we’ve ruined

Off the Wall

The photographer Horst A. Friedrichs celebrates the magic of independent booksellers and the volumes on their shelves, from the Strand to Shakespeare and Company

Famous-Parent Syndrome

The 20s’ Bonnie and Clyde

Let’s Get N.Y.C. Cooking Again!

Everyone’s hungry to get back to normal. Here’s how. Plus: looking for Prince William; bad behavior in paradise; and more

Lovers’ Season

A soundtrack in homage, with music from the Lemonheads, Eddie Hazel, the Beatles, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, and more

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

HBO’s new documentary on the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll tells an inspiring story of survival

Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

Special B

Rhiannon Giddens

The American singer’s new album is a moving ode to the pleasures and losses of a year in lockdown

Opera Pick of the Week

Sir David McVicar’s Met Opera staging of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as Britain’s first Queen Elizabeth

Sight and Sound

Eye on Dance, a weekly interview show that ran from 1981 to 2004, was required watching in the dance world. A special archival episode from 1986 is now available for streaming

Frankenthaler and Me

Searching for Helen Frankenthaler gets personal for an author whose past is intertwined with that of the great American artist

Notes from Under the Sheets

Tracing the pre–Crime and Punishment love affair of Dostoevsky and Polina Suslova, a young, dazzling Russian radical

Re-writing History

Antony Beevor is trading the page for the screen, joining forces with Ridley Scott for a wide-ranging series on W.W. II’s final year

Murder, They Wrote

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook II