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Paul Davis’s Sketchbook

Lunch with Amy Sedaris

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the comedian and Mandalorian actress comes clean about her tanorexia, the Girl Scout badges she didn’t get, and her obsession with high heels

The Mysteries Continue

The gift that even Scrooge can’t resist? A subscription to the best spy novels of all time, curated by the London bookseller Heywood Hill

The Logistics of Terror

Let Them Drink Vodka

The statewide water shortage is driving New Yorkers to desperate measures

High Noonan

The Pulitzer Prize–winning political columnist Peggy Noonan discusses her note from Trump, the surprising reason why he is not a Neanderthal, and writing in Edmund Burke for president

The High Priestess of Grind House

Stephanie Rothman was a rare female director in 1970s Hollywood. What kept her from following in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese?

Teenage Wasteland

A new book of photographs by Beth Garrabrant—the artist behind Taylor Swift’s recent album covers—documents youth in the American suburbs

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss the tale of Genghis Khan’s grandson, an examination of Queen Victoria’s relationships with her prime ministers, and a biography of the Brothers Grimm

The Never-Ending Allure of Heeeeathcliff!

For decades, directors have struggled to adapt Emily Brontë’s brooding magnum opus, Wuthering Heights. Saltburn’s Emerald Fennell is the latest to try her hand

Mafalda Muñoz and Gonzalo Machado’s Guide to Madrid

The design duo behind Casa Muñoz share their favorite spots in their home city

It Takes Two

On what would have been Robert Frank’s 100th birthday, a window into his friendship with fellow photographer—and protégé—Edward Keating

Bombs Away? Can You Bring a Stanley Kubrick Film to the Stage?

This week, John Lahr discusses a theatrical adaptation of Dr. Strangelove

Rebel with a Cause

MoMA pays homage to one of its founders, Lillie Plummer Bliss, a canny collector and early champion of modernism

Lashana Lynch

The James Bond and Marvel actress now stars alongside Eddie Redmayne in a remake of The Day of the Jackal

The Master and the Mirror

The little-known friendship between Henri Matisse and Joan Miró was based on mutual admiration, and an urge to reach greater artistic heights

Weird Barbie Writes a Book

Saturday Night Live alumna Kate McKinnon is the latest actor to try her hand at writing a children’s book. Not surprisingly, it’s great!

2024: A Space Odyssey

Stars, black holes, meteorites … An exhibition in New York pays tribute to the late Pop artists, friends, and cosmos enthusiasts Alain Jacquet and James Rosenquist, presenting their work together for the first time

Back to the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal transformed the thriller genre—and inspired real-life assassins. Now it gets a 21st-century makeover with Eddie Redmayne in the title role

Klaus Kremmerz’s Sketchbook

Elon Musk’s Pre-Election Thoughts

The SpaceX billionaire lambastes the Dems’ crooked agenda and shares his plans to colonize Mars

Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

With Catastrophe, Divorce, and now Bad Sisters, Sharon Horgan is the queen of depicting women in frantic disarray

Sodom and Camorra

The Twisted Aristocrat