Trump’s Spitting Image
Get ready for a new cast of puppets—Beyoncé! Bezos! Kardashians! Kanye! Ivanka! Thunberg! Zuckerberg!—as Britain’s biting, satirical, take-no-prisoners Spitting Image returns to television
Lindsey Graham Serves a Stiff One
What if he loses his Senate seat and opens a slightly dowdy gay bar called Feathers?
Hockney’s Normandy Invasion
The artist’s most recent work, inspired by his sojourn in the north of France, goes on show this month at Paris’s Galerie Lelong
Where Have All the Thinkers Gone?
Editors at Bloomberg and The Economist make the case for a 21st-century Hobbes to solve our coronavirus woes
Goldberg Inversions
And now, for the next act from Dan Tepfer, jazz pianist and most genial of polymaths: a digitally enabled rendition of J.S. Bach’s epochal Goldberg Variations
Quilting Queens (and Kings)
New exhibitions showcase the work of Black artists using cloth as their canvas. They’re honoring a legacy dating back to slavery, when quilts served as navigational signals on the Underground Railroad
In Search of Lost Morals
Transactionalism has been a part of our politics since our founding. And, even during World War, it’s coexisted with decency. Not anymore
Feminist of One
She wrote about spanking before Fifty Shades of Grey and profiled Soon-Yi Previn when no one else would go there. Daphne Merkin explains what’s missing from today’s strand of feminism
Jim Baker’s Midlife Crisis
The man who ran Washington during Watergate and the Cold War reveals the story behind his epic career switch
Flunkies
What if Trump’s pardoned miscreants all had to teach grade school?
Autumn Armagnac
Mellow melodies to suit the season, from Big Star, Billie Holiday, Eva Cassidy, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo, and more
R.B.G., Before She Was Notorious
Spirited chat about this week’s top stories
Growing Up Picasso
A new book focuses on the Spanish artist’s relationship with one of his greatest muses—his first daughter, Maya
Hear Them Roar
Susan Sontag, Germaine Greer, Norman Mailer, and others battle over “women’s lib” in a rarely seen documentary about the epic 1971 all-star debate
Lust in Translation
Bill Murray is back in the picture in Sofia Coppola’s new film about Gen X marriage, On the Rocks
A Different Draft of History
Oktoberfest 1900 gives the Bavarian beer festival an injection of Scorsese menace and mayhem
