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Essential Reading

On running a bookstore in lockdown

Read Any Good TV Lately?

Even when shows are in English, more and more viewers choose to watch with captioning. So, what’s the story?

My Father, the S.S. Officer

Earthly Delights

Consider the fragility of your natural habitat with songs from Marvin Gaye, R.E.M., Childish Gambino, and others

A Cake and a Waltz

Sacha Floch Poliakoff

Looking Ahead: A Post-Crisis Novel

Going Green

No, not that kind of green! A week in the life of an envious (and totally inadequate) social distancer*

Superhero Worship

A Vlog to Remember

Anne Frank’s diary is retold as a YouTube video about a teenager in hiding from the Nazis

The Picture of Doris Duke

The Oracle of Austin

Identity Crisis

While the younger of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s two sons struck out on his own, the older struggled to break free from his father’s shadow

Where the Wild Things Were

The Leonardo Whisperer

Four decades spent studying Italian Renaissance art taught Carmen Bambach as much about navigating a field still dominated by men as it did about Leonardo da Vinci

Sonic Tonics

Lose (or find) yourself in tracks from Aphex Twin, John Coltrane, an Environments album, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and more

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Self-isolate with Boccaccio

Wellness Formula

The relaxation guru behind the cool-as-cucumbers personalities of Rudy Giuliani and Gordon Ramsay reveals her secrets for keeping loose and carrying on

Donald Trump’s Completely Unverified Coronavirus Diary*

Melania makes a run for an epicenter of the coronavirus, Boris reports in from his sickbed, and the president struggles to distinguish between “She” and “Xi”: a week in the life

Roxana Halls

How should women act? The British artist’s subversive feminist works are gleefully unapologetic

Can Normal People Make It on TV?

Fans worship Sally Rooney as the voice of a generation. But will her best-seller translate to TV?

Jan Morris’s Diary