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No Half Measures

Why Talk to a Pariah?

I’ve never met one I didn’t like and I just wanted to understand

Medieval Plastic

Robert Harris’s new novel is set after modern civilization collapses and the world reverts to the Dark Ages

Paris Picture Show

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

For Old Times’ Sake

A slew of new exhibitions puts the spotlight on ancient times, from King Tut to Pompeii

John Le Carré is dead at 89. Here, a review of his last book

College Tour 2019

A road trip with R.E.M., Kanye, Django Reinhardt, Post Malone, Joe Turner, and more …

Screen Time

Working Women

Now You See It

Joni’s Blue Period

Anthony Horowitz

On the most intriguing—and enduring—fiction

Short List

Once upon a Time in China

First Light

There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame

Helen Mirren brings something special to every performance. But for HBO’s Catherine the Great, she also draws on her own White Russian roots

MoMA Mia⁠—a New Museum!

Following a familiar script, the Museum of Modern Art has re-invented itself yet again. But first it had to be invented

Stable Genius

A séjour in Deauville leads master photographer Larry Fink to explore his horsey side

Deer Dear Prec President
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Naval Gazing

On October 29, Bonhams, in London, will offer a major Marine Sale

Bruce McCall’s Sketchbook

Bong Joon-ho

Parasite, the South Korean director’s new film about class warfare, triumphed at Cannes and is generating Oscar heat

Zwirner Takes Paris