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Hilary Knight’s Sketchbook

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

Long Story Short

Wondering Eye

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

Smyth on Smith

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

There are worthwhile podcasts for both Brexiteers and Remainiacs. One is recorded in a pub

Nasty Business

Fashionable Tracks

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

Blonde Venus

The Swedish bombshell who blew up Italian movies

After Dark

Trick of the Light

Short List

A Guide to the Venice Biennale

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

In the Picture

All Work and No Playlist? Hardly!

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

Top Shop

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

Lara’s Song

Candice Bergen, Star Reporter

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

War Games

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg