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Bohemian Rhapsody

Photographs of Andy Warhol, Loulou de la Falaise, and Marisa Berenson capture the birth of 60s cool

Change of Pace

Soprano from the North Country

White House of Horrors

A scandal that prefigured today’s appalling Trump escapades. Plus: chasing, and catching, Cosby

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Guide to the Armory Show and Beyond

The Picture of Greed

Michael Winterbottom’s new film is an unsparing portrait of a ruthless fast-fashion billionaire

Famous Last Words

Death doesn’t stop narrators in songs from expressing themselves, as tracks from Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, the Rolling Stones, the Shangri-Las, and others prove

Enemies’ Enemies

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Josh O’Connor

Between seasons of The Crown, on which he plays Charles, the actor stars in Emma, in theaters now

Bahia Bash

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Churchill

The Leaning Towers of Deutsche

The author of a new book exposes the widespread, historic corruption fueling the German bank’s downfall

Alexandra Fuller

The African-born writer recommends books that depict the complex brutality of colonialism

So Much More than a Shoe

Tide Turner

To the Extreme

Jenny Kroik’s Sketchbook

Bob Balaban

“I pretend for a living. But in real life, I’m a reality junkie”: the actor recommends his favorite nonfiction books

Valentine’s Day After

So, how’d it go? Really? Well, maybe Nick Cave, Marianne Faithfull, Bryan Ferry, Millie Jackson, Todd Rundgren, and the National can help

Melania Diaries,
Part III

Cloudy with a Chance of Doom