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Sophie’s Choice

Sophie Ward, the model and actress whose coming-out shocked the world, has written a book

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Moveable Feast—Partying in Europe, Dining in N.Y.C.

A new podcast from AIR MAIL featuring spirited chat about the week’s top stories

Murder, They Wrote

Tainted Love

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

Learning to Fly

Step off the edge with Bruce Springsteen, Bon Iver, Rostam, Billie Holiday, and more

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Flunkies

What if Trump’s pardoned miscreants all had to teach grade school?

Cinema Paradiso

Social (Justice) Studies

Grant Shaffer’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Jim Baker’s Midlife Crisis

The man who ran Washington during Watergate and the Cold War reveals the story behind his epic career switch