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Tim Burton’s Sketchbook

Fellow Travelers

Architecture’s Philosopher

A new coffee-table book celebrates the life and career of I. M. Pei, the modernist visionary behind Paris’s Louvre Pyramid and Hong Kong’s Bank of China Tower

True Confessions?

Did Joan Didion’s husband have the hots for Eve Babitz—or was he moving in another direction?

Sophie Calle’s Lessons in Provocation

A genre-defying show in Minneapolis marks the French artist, memoirist, and voyeur’s first-ever North American retrospective

Can’t Read, Won’t Read

Have children fallen out of love with books? And, if so, does it matter?

From Russia with Lust

Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora, was a hit at Cannes and is now drawing Oscar buzz. How did he make sex work so respectable?

Boffing for Britain

The new, high-camp TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals sticks two fingers up at today’s sexless puritanism

Inside the Secret Life of Joan Didion

On this week’s podcast, Lili Anolik reveals what she learned about the revered writer and her private life

Like to a Lonely Dragon

A shattering Coriolanus from Tom Hiddleston, ten years on

Adventures in Absinthe

When I set out to expose a black-market counterfeiter of vintage absinthe, things didn’t go the way I expected

Yulia Navalnaya Picks Up the Baton

Eight months after the Kremlin murdered her husband, Alexei Navalny’s widow reflects on their marriage, their shared aspirations for their home country, and why she doesn’t hate Vladimir Putin

Mimi Thorisson’s Guide to Turin

The cookbook author and chef shares her favorite spots in her adopted city

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

If You Build It …

Deadly Pleasures to Listen to, Read, and Watch

Get in the Halloween spirit with this month’s best mystery podcast, book, and movie

All About Marilyn

Eve Arnold’s newly discovered pictures of Marilyn Monroe capture the enduring friendship between Magnum’s first female photographer and an actress fighting for success in a male-dominated world

Call Him by His Name

In an interview, André Aciman discusses the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name and his new memoir, about his own teenage years spent in Italy

From Russia, with Lulz

Mark Eydelshteyn landed his first English-speaking role with a very unusual audition tape

Teenage Wasteland

At the turn of the century, Abercrombie & Fitch led a pop-culture movement hyping up consumerism. Millennials bought in—and got duped

Inside the Summer’s Most Mysterious Tragedy

This week, Sam Kashner discusses what he learned about the sinking of the doomed, multi-million-dollar yacht Bayesian

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Son

Lunch with Hannah Waddingham

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Ted Lasso actress reveals why she doesn’t want to look like herself when she appears on-screen

Open Roads to Candy Mountain

In an interview, the actor Kevin J. O’Connor reflects on his experience shooting Robert Frank’s newly restored 1987 film