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Bill, Barr the Door!

Kids These Days

Mary Ellen Mark’s gritty photographs evoke the resilience and spirit of youth

“I Know Those Guys”

Before he met Nora Ephron, Nick Pileggi learned everything he needed to know to write Goodfellas in Bensonhurst

A Stand-Up Duchess

Fearless, filthy, and brash, Katherine Ryan is a single mother—and Netflix star—seizing her moment

Duncan Hannah’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Bake-Off Bakes On

Fans of The Great British Baking Show, as it’s known in the U.S., will be relieved to learn that the show will soon come back for its 11th season

Wax On, Wax Off

Cobra Kai, a TV-series sequel to The Karate Kid, pays worthy homage to the original while undoing it

You See, But You Do Not Observe …

He invented the world’s greatest detective, but Arthur Conan Doyle was also an intrepid traveler, his biographer reveals

Alan Partridge Has Something to Say

“It’s the real, raw, be-cardiganed me.” Britain’s No. 1 raconteur is back with a podcast

Black and White and Read All over the South

How a comic book about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rallied 1960s civil-rights fighters, including John Lewis

Welcome to the Show

NEW: Spirited chat about this week’s top stories

Being There

There’s no substitute for seeing a concert in person, but these tracks will tide you over until that’s a possibility again

Soul-Searching

They are known as history’s most ruthless warriors, but the Vikings also believed in luck and guardian angels

All the President’s Spies

“Ring” of Fire

Cloud Atlas

Dana Schutz, the artist behind the Emmett Till controversy, debuts her first solo show in London, “Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly”

Hoodoo Economics

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

Go Time

The author of a new book on the future of business thought the coronavirus would upend it. Instead, the pandemic proved its central thesis: a move toward frictionlessness

Farm to Screen

In Bloom