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A Guide to the Venice Biennale

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

The Longest Day

In the Picture

War Games

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

Next in Line

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

Museum-Going Etiquette

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

Bauhaus Revival

Inspectors About Town

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

All Work and No Playlist? Hardly!

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

Lara’s Song

Joy Rider

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

Top Shop

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

Candice Bergen, Star Reporter

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

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Year of the Moon

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

Hilary Knight’s Sketchbook

Queen of Muses

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

Late-Night

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

Dressing the Part

History on His Mind