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Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

Year of the Moon

Museums and stages across the world celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

Hilary Knight’s Sketchbook

Open House

Fool’s Gold

News from the Front

All Modern Women Are Jealous

Tangier Style

A new book, out in September, features photographs of the Moroccan coastal city’s picturesque homes and gardens

Queen of Muses

The always extraordinary Patricia Clarkson on Sharp Objects, portraying difficult characters, and the correct way to make jambalaya

Laura Carlin

The London artist whose illustrations and ceramics appeal to children and grown-ups alike

Class Act

The Story of L

A noted French author reimagines Nabokov’s novel from Lolita’s point of view

Late-Night

Beck, Ray Charles, the Beastie Boys, Vans Morrison and McCoy, and more

Dressing the Part

History on His Mind

A Monster Among Angels

The Night of the Iguana, now in an eloquent production in London, is Tennessee Williams’s last great work

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

The Polish Canon

The Id of HBO

Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”

Hitler’s Blue Period

The Nazis stole Franz Marc’s masterpiece of German Expressionism, setting off an eight-decade search to find it

Sapphistry

Something’s wrong with the
depiction of the love affair
in Vita & Virginia