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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Working Girls

Even guests of New York’s women-only Barbizon, the revolutionary residential hotel once home to Sylvia Plath, found the sexist rules of their era hard to shake

Kazuo Ishiguro

The quintessential British writer recommends his favorite Westerns, from Charles Portis’s True Grit to Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

Comedy of Errors

Everything went wrong at once for Annabelle Gurwitch. An interview with the writer and actress is a lesson in meeting hardship with humor

Articles of War

Bless This Mess

Adults and kids alike will appreciate the tips and tricks for Taking the Stress Out of Homework

Collector’s Collector

Selections from New York fixture Adrian Dannatt’s collection, including pieces by Nan Goldin and Duncan Hannah, are on display at Miguel Abreu Gallery

Opera Pick of the Week

A new performance of von Weber’s Freischütz by Dmitri Tcherniakov, streaming from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich

Bulbs for Spring

This month, a design exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and a lamp show in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, explore the poetics of light

For the Record

Coinciding with the publication of the unredacted Chips Channon diaries, London’s Heywood Hill Bookshop hosts the volume’s editor, Simon Heffer, in conversation with British MP Michael Gove

M Is for Man Ray

Morfydd Clark

The young Welsh actress landed her breakout role as the star of Rose Glass’s debut thriller, Saint Maud. Next up: the new Lord of the Rings TV series

First Contact

He’s known as the nerdy genius whose Twitter feed moves markets and bridges bizarre factions of the left and right. But Elon Musk’s greatest skill is scoring talent

Divine Divas

Music to celebrate the fairer sex with, from Jan Bradley, Mina, Bettye Swann, and Lucinda Williams

A Scientist of Sorrow

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

London Calling

Roy Mehta’s Brent photographs reveal a rarely seen side of London and its diverse communities

Chips for the Cashing

The diaries of Chips Channon, to be published next week in their first unredacted edition, take delightful aim at British high society and the royal family

Bank Notes

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Remember When?

An interview with French playwright Florian Zeller, who makes his filmmaking debut with The Father, a moving story of dementia starring Anthony Hopkins

What Would Elon Musk Do?

On this week’s podcast, a look at his secrets to success. Plus, Woody Allen; Boris Johnson’s domestic problems; and much more

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