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Off the Beaten Track

Cool new songs from Frank Ocean, Glass Animals, the 1975, and more

Old Bones, New Tricks

Seeing Double

How a doppelgänger foiled a secret Nazi plot to shoot a plane carrying precious cargo out of the sky

Charlie Scheips’s Sketchbook

Is Unorthodox Inauthentic?

A dissenting take on the popular Netflix mini-series, one among a growing genre of escape-from-Judaism stories

Commune of the Flies

Six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months. It turned out very differently than William Golding’s terrifying novel

The #uck of the Irish

The sex-soaked mini-series Normal People gets people horny for Ireland

Interview with a Virus

In which he thanks his main man, the super-spreader in chief, Donnie Darkness

Catch Him if You Can

The Titanic Daily Task-Force Briefing

“Look, this is just, like, a really big ice cube, O.K.?”

Calder Complex

“My fan mail is enormous—everybody is under six”: on the American sculptor’s complicated relationship with his admirers

April Showers Bring Chelsea Flowers

Tear the Roof Off the Sucker

Cut a rug in the comfort of your own home with Donna Summer, Blondie, the Weeknd, James Brown, and more

How to Build a Movie Star

Beanie Feldstein is irresistible as a high-schooler who leaps onto the masthead of a high-profile music magazine

Working Girl

After Ari, Jackie O spent 20 years in book publishing. A friend of hers remembers that largely overlooked time

Sliding Doors

In her new novel, Curtis Sittenfeld reimagines the life of Hillary without Bill

Hugo Guiness’s Sketchbook

Books for Spring!

Across the Universe

With companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin pioneering a new era in space exploration, artists show what’s at stake

In Search of Lost Food

Keeping track of the days may be a thing of the past, but when it comes to mapping out our next meal, it’s always go time

All Quiet in the Forager’s Wood

A new book of photographs takes you mushroom hunting with the great American composer John Cage

Bad Apples

Laura Wade

The young British playwright with an Olivier under her belt is just getting started

Paris, When It Sizzles

The director of La La Land and Whiplash returns with his newest project: a love song to music, set in a French jazz club