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Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’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

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

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

No-Brain Teaser

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

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

Jennifer Weiner

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

Fake It till You Invade It

The Vegas of the South

007 Lives at No. 25

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Charlie Scheips’s Sketchbook

Catch Him on TikTok

The coronavirus has returned the late Bob Ross, who hosted the wildly popular TV series The Joy of Painting, to the spotlight

A Tale of Two Heroes

Sic Trans Gloria

Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders

The (Kanye) West Wing

Imagining his first 100 days

Double-Dip

Frenemies, Cold War–Style

Dominic West and Damian Lewis take on one of the greatest spy scandals ever

Dancing and Dreaming

Songs to lift you out of this slump, from Thundercat, the Zombies, Steely Dan, Cymande, and more