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Spark of Genius

Muriel Spark, one of the most admired British novelists of the 20th century, led a mystically charged life that uncannily melded fact and fiction

Mrs. Dalloway at 100

A century on, Virginia Woolf’s breakthrough novel remains modern

Keeping Score

Emily Adams Bode Aujla’s Guide to New York

The fashion designer shares her go-to spots in her adopted city

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

15 Reasons Pete Buttigieg Should Be President

With no clear Democratic front-runner, could the former secretary of transportation be the party’s next presidential nominee? We count the reasons why

Madness! Mayhem! Megalopolis!

A new documentary about the filming of Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million fiasco reveals an aloof Adam Driver, an enraged Shia LaBeouf—and a chaos-loving Coppola

Mick Herron’s Horse Sense

The Slow Horses author on the inspiration for Jackson Lamb, taking a page out of Stephen King’s book, and what his third act would look like

The Gospel According to Matthew

The Pride and Prejudice That Almost Was

Duets on horseback, Philadelphia nightlife … Inside an unmade Hollywood-musical version of the Austen classic, starring Judy Garland and Peter Lawford

Kathryn Bigelow Goes Nuclear

The Oscar-winning director is back in her happy place with the nail-biting, anxiety-inducing, apocalyptic political thriller A House of Dynamite

Four Boys. One Fed-Up Country

Now in its 27th season—an animated-series endurance record topped only by The Simpsons—South Park is a tonic for our Trump-ified times

That Time When Prince Andrew Went Full Curb Your Enthusiasm

On this week’s podcast, Susie Essman recounts her very strange conversation with Jeffrey Epstein’s royal pal

London Confidential

Boodle’s, Blacks, Buck’s, Brooks’s … A new coffee-table book takes readers on a tour of the city’s private members’ clubs

Close Encounters

In London, the contemporary artist Mona Hatoum honors Alberto Giacometti with an exhibition exploring their mutual fascination with the psychological effects of violence

The Bard of New England

Screenwriter Ben Shattuck’s old-school Massachusetts hometown inspired a new period romance starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor

The Italian Job

Masterminded by Peter Sellars, the Paris Opéra premiere of Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda

The Carat Confessions

The longtime jewelry editor at British Vogue recalls some of the dicier moments in her career—including when a stalker made off with a haul of precious gems

The Hippie Mafia

Fifteen years after the publication of my book on the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, here’s how I infiltrated the infamous Laguna Beach LSD cartel that supplied everyone from John Lennon to Steve Jobs

Anne Berest’s Guide to Brittany

The French writer shares her favorite spots in Finistère, the region at the heart of her latest novel

Risko’s Sketchbook

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

This week in American health: coronavirus-vaccine bans, C.D.C. firings, measles’ return, and the No. 1 cause of child deaths (now, officially, firearms)

A Library Grows in Tuscany

Beatrice Monti della Corte has been welcoming writers to her villa outside Florence for years. Now she’s unveiling a two-story library next door

Hold the Mayo

There is no such thing as a safe lunch