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All Work and No Playlist? Hardly!

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

Lara’s Song

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Top Shop

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

Joy Rider

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

Year of the Moon

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

Hilary Knight’s Sketchbook

News from the Front

Dressing the Part

History on His Mind

Fool’s Gold

Tangier Style

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

A Monster Among Angels

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

All Modern Women Are Jealous

Queen of Muses

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

The Story of L

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

Class Act

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

Open House

Laura Carlin

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

Late-Night

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

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

The Unpublished Verse
of Donald Trump

“I think that I shall never see,
a poem lovely as a wall … ”

Randall Poster’s Bumper-to-Bumper Blues Playlist

Lily Allen, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Traffic
(naturally), Sly & Robbie, and More