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Face Time

From Whitney Houston to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Louise Bourgeois to Kate Moss, a new coffee-table book collects a lifetime of portraits by the photographer Bruce Weber

Grandmother Courage

The little-known story of the Argentinean women who fought to reclaim their stolen grandchildren—and helped topple a dictatorship

When Gen Z Discovered Dubya

On this week’s podcast, Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz explain why Gen Z thinks George W. Bush is so cool

Both Sides Now

Meet Harriet Walter, master-mistress of Shakespearean voices, now onstage in Bath

Chez Picasso

From the Côte d’Azur to the Rue des Grands-Augustins, a new exhibition in Dublin maps the artist’s career through the various French homes where he worked

Water Falling at Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest achievement is suffering from a bad case of nominative determinism

She Come Groovin’ Up Slowly

How Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the wife of the infamous psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary, sparked one of the Beatles’ greatest hits

Homer’s Heroines

Rosa Esteva’s Guide to Majorca

The fashion designer and founder of Cortana shares her favorite spots on the island she calls home

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Match Made in Dance Heaven

For the first time, Manhattan’s Joyce Theater organizes its Ballet Festival around a single choreographer, Jerome Robbins, in a program curated by Tiler Peck, a principal dancer at New York City Ballet

Wet Hot American Summer

The backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol. And this summer, it’s more fetishized than ever

Back from the Dead

Jim Marshall’s Grateful Dead photos, capturing the calm and chaos of the 1960s rock ’n’ roll scene, are collected in a new coffee-table book

Corey Mylchreest

With starring roles in the romantic comedy My Oxford Year and the Julie Delpy–led political thriller, Hostage, the 27-year-old actor is spearheading the revival of Cool Britannia

The Price of Being a Kennedy

The show-runner and producer of a new documentary series ask, Why is the world still obsessed with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy?

Hex and the City

Jonathan Mahler reveals how the late 1980s in the city foreshadowed this year’s mayoral race—and the Trump presidency

A Pragmatic Progressive’s Lament

Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of the Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on free speech, protests, and liberalism

Bright Young Things

The Bureau of Unbelievable Statistics

Who better to be Trump’s data czar than the disgraced former congressman George Santos?

Love in the Time of Content Creators

On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David tells us how Gen Z has taken all the fun out of wedding proposals

That’s Entertainment!

At the Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger without tears

Manifest Industry

Eighty years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a new book looks back at the American factories that manufactured its crucial minerals on an unprecedented scale

A Revolutionary Spirit