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Lara’s Song

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

War Games

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

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

The Longest Day

Year of the Moon

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

Hilary Knight’s Sketchbook

The Story of L

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

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

Laura Carlin

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

News from the Front

Class Act

Open House

Queen of Muses

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

Dressing the Part

History on His Mind

Late-Night

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