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All the President’s Spies

“Ring” of Fire

Hoodoo Economics

Being There

There’s no substitute for seeing a concert in person, but these tracks will tide you over until that’s a possibility again

Alan Partridge Has Something to Say

“It’s the real, raw, be-cardiganed me.” Britain’s No. 1 raconteur is back with a podcast

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

Go Time

The author of a new book on the future of business thought the coronavirus would upend it. Instead, the pandemic proved its central thesis: a move toward frictionlessness

Spy Wiz

Germany Works

Not All Roses

See both sides of love with these songs from Bryan Ferry, Bertrand Burgalat, Carly Simon, Krisma, and more

El Chapo Guzmán, Movie Star

The incarcerated Mexican drug lord isn’t giving up on his Hollywood dreams

Murder, They Wrote

Disconcerting

The BBC scraps the “Rule, Britannia!” lyrics from a beloved music program for fear of re-awakening the woke, then reverses its reverse

In Bloom

Farm to Screen

What if … Cher Were Postmaster General?

She’s been trying to volunteer at her Malibu post office. What might happen if she got the top job?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Richard Haines’s Sketchbook

As Maine Goes

Good Wood

This fall, artists take inspiration from the nature around them

The Long Fall

The Owl Has Landed

Bach of Ages

An interview with Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who is releasing two new recordings of Bach’s formidable Goldberg Variations