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Risko’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Being Your Own Boss

Hank Azaria provides the voices for some of The Simpsons’ most beloved charactersbut none are as close to his heart as his impression of Bruce Springsteen

Lunch with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, Jesse Tyler Ferguson recalls being sent the first Modern Family script and reading it on his first-generation iPhone in a coffee shop

Battle of Battles

In the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael—were embroiled in rivalry. Now a London exhibition retraces their intersecting paths

Christopher Cawley

Meet the antiques dealer sharing Chinatown’s hottest address with James Veloria and Eckhaus Latta

The Melania Diaries

The former First Lady recalls the moments—and, more importantly, the “unforgettable ensembles”—that will stay with her forever

Hang It in the Louvre

The comics-loving French have turned World Without End, a graphic novel about climate change, into a surprise best-seller

Workers of the World, Divide

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a charming history of American presidents’ financial affairs, Tove Jansson’s chronicle of summers in Finland, and a collection of Dorothy Parker’s New Yorker reviews

Su Wu’s Guide to Mexico City

The American curator, editor, and writer shares her favorite spots in her adopted city

Songwriters Got No Reason to Live

Boffing for Britain

The new, high-camp TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals sticks two fingers up at today’s sexless puritanism

From Russia with Lust

Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora, was a hit at Cannes and is now drawing Oscar buzz. How did he make sex work so respectable?

Tim Burton’s Sketchbook

Can’t Read, Won’t Read

Have children fallen out of love with books? And, if so, does it matter?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Fellow Travelers

Architecture’s Philosopher

A new coffee-table book celebrates the life and career of I. M. Pei, the modernist visionary behind Paris’s Louvre Pyramid and Hong Kong’s Bank of China Tower

True Confessions?

Did Joan Didion’s husband have the hots for Eve Babitz—or was he moving in another direction?

Inside the Secret Life of Joan Didion

On this week’s podcast, Lili Anolik reveals what she learned about the revered writer and her private life

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Sophie Calle’s Lessons in Provocation

A genre-defying show in Minneapolis marks the French artist, memoirist, and voyeur’s first-ever North American retrospective

Like to a Lonely Dragon

A shattering Coriolanus from Tom Hiddleston, ten years on