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A Dutchman in Dublin

Gung-ho Wagner from the Irish National Opera

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a transfixing chronicle of the nuclear age, a look back at Cambridge’s queer history, and a portrait of everyday life in war-torn Ukraine

Shark Tales

In time for the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a new book reveals how Robert Shaw’s haunting monologue came to be

Alexandre de Betak’s Guide to Paris

The fashion show producer shares his favorite design shops in his hometown

A Photo Finish

Forty-five years after The Shining’s release, a reporter and an academic doggedly tracked down the original version of the eerie photograph that Kubrick chose to close the film with

Health Scare

Popular theories on why R.F.K. Jr. fired the entire C.D.C. vaccine advisory panel

The Great James Bond Renaissance

While the next 007 film languishes in Amazon purgatory, a new wave of book spin-offs are re-inventing the British spy for the next generation

Bessie Carter

The daughter of Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter lands the lead role in the new Mitford-sisters series, Outrageous

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

When We Were Young

Portrait of a Country on Fire

A new book of photographs by Mitch Epstein captures the devastating impact of industry on the American landscape—and the fragile pockets of nature that remain

My Best Friendship with Kate Spade

The designer’s co-founder reveals how a broke student from Kansas named Katy Brosnahan became handbag maven “Kate Spade”

Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding

On this week’s podcast, Stuart Heritage reports on what to expect at the bridezilla-iest wedding ever

Parade’s End

Trump’s birthday wish list has a lot more on it than just a Soviet-style military procession

Summer of Cézanne

In Aix-en-Provence, a wave of exhibitions pays tribute to the French painter

Lisa’s Mystery Picks

This week, don’t miss an Agatha Christie–meets–P. G. Wodehouse murder mystery, a police procedural by the creator of Broadchurch, and a whodunit set in a Maine retiree town

Blanca Miró Scrimieri’s Guide to Barcelona

The Spanish fashion designer and co-founder of La Veste shares her favorite spots in her hometown

White Knight In the Trauma Center

From Paris, Kirill Serebrennikov’s off-the-rails Lohengrin

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Big Stick Energy

Owen Wilson’s new Apple TV+ golf sitcom might be the new Ted Lasso

The Real Jay Gatsby

Did F. Scott Fitzgerald model his titular character after his real-life Princeton school-mate?

Risko’s Sketchbook

The Call of the Wild West

Band of Brothers

How the Gallagher siblings broke up Oasis five minutes before going onstage in front of 40,000 people