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If Gertrude Stein’s Art Could Talk

A new biography pulls back the curtain on the famed Paris patron of everyone from Picasso to Matisse, Hemingway to Fitzgerald

Cutting Through the Noise

From Homer’s singing Sirens to Doctor Who’s sonic screwdriver, sound as a deadly weapon has long captivated our imagination. But have we overlooked its true dangers?

The Bloodbasket of America

Simon Kim’s Guide to Las Vegas

The restaurateur behind Korean steakhouse Cote shares his favorite spots in the city

The Lone Seabird

Memo to POTUS

Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s October Surprise

Anatomy of an It Girl

How a British woman named Jane became the French bag named Birkin

How Jane Birkin Became the Queen of It Girls

On this week’s podcast, Joan Juliet Buck remembers the British girl who conquered Paris and how her style still influences women

“The Morandi of His Era”

An exhibition in Frankfurt honors Carl Schuch, the long-neglected 19th-century painter who is only now getting his due

Gore Vidal at 100

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are”

Don’t Call Richard Osman Cozy

The author discusses the Helen Mirren–led adaptation of his best-selling book The Thursday Murder Club, his podcast, The Rest Is Entertainment, and why he considers “cozy crime” a reductive label

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Succession, Plus Beer and Brutality

Guinness heiress Ivana Lowell on the moment she realized her real-life family drama was made for the screen

Every Child Left Behind

David Lan’s new play, about the plight of refugee children post–World War II, questions the meaning of home in a shattered world

The Mirror and the Megaphone

Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt is the first great film about cancel culture

Moving Mountains

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss Geoff Dyer’s memoir of growing up in postwar England, a Pulitzer-winning nature writer’s account of summers in Newfoundland, and a story of a Taoist priest visiting the Mayans

Robert Redford

At a time when our country feels like it’s on fire, it’s hard to imagine a world without the actor—and his friend Paul Newman

Maria de la Orden’s Guide to Madrid

The Spanish fashion designer and co-founder of La Veste shares her go-to spots in her hometown

Hail, the Conquering Hero

In Salzburg, the French countertenor Christophe Dumaux stuns as Handel’s Julius Caesar

The Chairman in Profile

Gay Talese and Edward Sorel, the writer and illustrator of “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” on the origins, aftermath, and eventual sanctification of the greatest profile in magazine history

Downton and Out

With the last of the Downton Abbey movies in theaters, Lily James, Matthew Goode, and other cast members recall working with Maggie Smith and how Downton-mania spread across the pond

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Matisse vs. the Nazis

Despite a teaching post in San Francisco and a visa to Rio de Janeiro, the artist chose to stay in France and pursue his “degenerate” art during W.W. II