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Show and Tell

The artist Goshka Macuga is exploring the intersection of fashion and art as part of her long-term collaboration with Miu Miu

Frank Fournier’s New York

A portfolio of the French photographer’s 1970s Technicolor pictures hearkens back to a city steeped in danger, decay, and unbridled creative freedom

Ireland’s Literary Femme Fatale

The James Bond producer remembers Edna O’Brien, the pioneering writer whose books were once banned for their depictions of female sexuality

Died, Beheaded, Survived

Almine Rech’s Guide to Brussels

The French art dealer and gallery owner shares her favorite spots in the Belgian capital

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook

The Last Renaissance Man

Ely Callaway went from running the Burlington textile company to founding ultra-successful wine and golf businesses—all while hiding a lifelong secret

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Reality Check

From the French Proverbe to the English Experiment, a new coffee-table book surveys the avant-garde journals that paved the way for the 1920s’ Surrealist movement

Clarion Top Notes, Plus His Head on a Cake Stand

Elza van den Heever, the Met’s new Salome, delivers the whole package

The Family Jewels

The Victoria and Albert Museum is paying tribute to Cartier with a glittering new show. Jacques Cartier’s great-granddaughter walks us through it

An Ode to the Humble Paperback

From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Bright Lights, Big City to A Little Life, books that were better the next time around

Shrink Rap

Elephant Man

The secret history of the Asian elephants that Belgium’s Leopold II dispatched to Africa in service of his ruthless colonial vision

The First $100 Million and the First 100 Days

On this week’s podcast, Jacob Silverman details Trump’s epic grift

Mimi Keene

The British actress wanted to become a veterinarian. Then roles alongside Gillian Anderson, in Sex Education, and Anjelica Huston, in Towards Zero, came calling

Nazi Loot In Limbo

Jake Heggie’s chamber opera Before It All Goes Dark

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss 75 newly reissued editions of Georges Simenon’s detective novels, featuring the French inspector Jules Maigret

Churchill’s Angels

How a secret W.W. II–era British spy ring fought the Nazis from New York’s Rockefeller Center—and how a female agent almost lost her life in the process

Stephanie Suberville’s Guide to San Miguel de Allende

The fashion designer and co-founder of Heirlome shares her go-to spots in the Mexican city

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Terroir Terror

A former sommelier at a four-star New York City restaurant recalls a harrowing sexual assault she experienced behind the scenes of the fine-dining world

Paper Trails

A charming new exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum, in Amherst, pays tribute to an often overlooked aspect of picture book–making: endpapers

The Blood of an Englishman

One of the most sensational murders in recent British history becomes, in Robert Icke’s Manhunt, a moving disquisition on male rage, societal failure, and madness