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After Dark

Trick of the Light

Fashionable Tracks

Danceable ones, too, from (among others) Beyoncé, Rihanna, Destiny’s Child, and, yes, Freezy

Short List

Smyth on Smith

Long Story Short

Wondering Eye

François Halard’s photography gets inside the homes and studios—and aesthetic experiences—of artists

Anna Sui in Color

A Higher Power

A new biography offers a look into the diary of Israel’s founder

Jacqueline Woodson

Selects three of this year’s best novels

A Guide to the Venice Biennale

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

In the Picture

Top Shop

The author, whose new book is out this fall, selects his favorite Scottish bookshop

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

Inspectors About Town

All Work and No Playlist? Hardly!

Here are Donna Summer, Howlin’ Wolf, Queen, Betty Everett, and more

Lara’s Song

Bauhaus Revival

Museum-Going Etiquette

Spoiler alert: you’re not the most fascinating thing in the place

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Joy Rider

Rowland Emett’s A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley heads to auction at Bonhams London

Candice Bergen, Star Reporter

A “very lucky” actor and the photojournalism career that got away