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An Introvert’s World

Under the Radar

On the Road

Warm Ways

Songs built to withstand the heat, from Fleetwood Mac, Delaney & Bonnie, Etta James, the Detroit Cobras, and more

Ghost of Dickens Past

Back to the Future

Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s book Future Shock, published a half-century ago, got a lot right about our current times

In Search of Lost Pianos

A journey to Siberia reveals the life of a 19th-century Russian princess who, in extreme isolation, found solace in music

The Movie Star’s Movie Star

A new podcast evokes the advent of the Valley’s adult-film stars and the awe they earned from their Hollywood equivalents

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Hidden Tunes

“Whatever story I’m telling, I tell it through music.” An interview with Bruce Adolphe, the mind behind the wildly popular Piano Puzzlers

Southern Gothic

New exhibitions at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery spotlight Black photographer Gordon Parks’s work chronicling the American South and more

The Anti-Intellectual

Push a Little Harder

Sick and tired of it all? Keep on keeping on with Joe Cocker, Curtis Mayfield, Charli XCX, Emitt Rhodes, and more

Open-Air Revival

Liquid Assets

No-Brain Teaser

A few questions that should have been on the cognitive test Trump boasts he “aced”

The Going Is Good

At 61, Kathy Valentine, the subject of a new documentary on the Go-Go’s, shows no sign of slowing down

007 Lives at No. 25

James Bond sleuths believe they have pinpointed his home in London—and discovered George Smiley was a neighbor

Winds of Change

New exhibitions celebrate the outsize life and work of photographer Gordon Parks as well as the artist Khadija Saye, killed in the Grenfell Tower fire at 24

Fake It till You Invade It

Jennifer Weiner

The author of In Her Shoes recommends the best books for the exercise-curious

The Vegas of the South

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook