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All Work and No Playlist? Hardly!

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

In the Picture

Top Shop

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

Lara’s Song

War Games

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Candice Bergen, Star Reporter

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

Bauhaus Revival

Inspectors About Town

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

Next in Line

In Season Two of HBO’s Succession, Sarah Snook proves she’s worthy of the Roy throne

Joy Rider

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

Museum-Going Etiquette

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

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

Year of the Moon

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

Hilary Knight’s Sketchbook

Fool’s Gold

News from the Front

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

Class Act

Open House

Dressing the Part

Queen of Muses

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