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Donald Trump’s Completely Unverified Coronavirus Diary*

Melania makes a run for an epicenter of the coronavirus, Boris reports in from his sickbed, and the president struggles to distinguish between “She” and “Xi”: a week in the life

Roxana Halls

How should women act? The British artist’s subversive feminist works are gleefully unapologetic

Can Normal People Make It on TV?

Fans worship Sally Rooney as the voice of a generation. But will her best-seller translate to TV?

Jan Morris’s Diary

“Hope You Are Well.”
(And Flush!)

A headshaking selection of “concerned” e-mails we’ve received

Come Together

The Year in Pop Music, So Far

Cool new songs from D Smoke, Carly Pearce, Christine and the Queens, Tame Impala, and more

Seven Score and Fifteen Years Ago …

The author of a new book on Lincoln’s second inaugural address captures the country at a historic crossroads

Kvetch, Memory

The New Commute

There in Spirit

London’s Chris Beetles Gallery launches “Spirit of England,” a weekly series of online exhibitions for browsing and buying

Charlie Scheips’s Sketchbook

Escape Mode

Fear’s Labyrinth

Fear and courage go hand in hand. America’s genius of modern dance, Martha Graham, understood and embodied both.

All Hail Tiger King!

It’s the strangest, weirdest documentary in ages—and in this strange, weird moment gives us what we crave: fun

In the Pink City

The author unveils her book, The Cartiers, at the Jaipur Literature Festival, where a century before, her great-grandfather had regularly traveled to meet clients

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

A book showcasing exquisite drawings both ancient and modern captures our evergreen relationship with mapping the world

Some Things Never Change

The author of a book on the Black Death reflects on how little human nature has evolved since that crisis

Fire-Escape Songs

Step outside yourself with Memphis Slim, Sharon Van Etten, Bruce Springsteen, Warren Zevon, the Shins, Bob Dylan, and more

Death by Committee

Field Kallop

Math, science, and the mysteries of the cosmos all feature into the mesmerizing work of this emerging New York artist

Murder, They Wrote

Good Place, Bad Place

Drawn and Quartered

On the 40th anniversary of Yes Minister, the wickedly great caricaturist looks back on the creation of those iconic opening credits