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Frida’s Missing Masterpiece

Frida Kahlo’s painting The Wounded Table vanished in 1955. The hunt for it continues

Chain Gang

Trump adds a condition for aspiring vice-presidential candidates

Trumping for Britain

Nigel Farage, the English far-right populist and friend of Trump, pauses from celebrating his recent election to Parliament to rail against the woke elite’s hold on … mathematics

You’re Only as Old as You Look

A new Tom Hanks film uses groundbreaking A.I. technology to transform the actor into his fresh-faced, 1980s self

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

La Ville Lumière, According to Honoré de Balzac

Hollywood Diaries

Better by Design

From postwar European churches to post-revolution Cuba, two new books chart the rise of midcentury modernism

Ozempic Meets Its Match

From Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight to Emma Specter’s More, Please, fat-phobia and eating disorders are getting the literary treatment in this year’s Zeitgeisty nonfiction releases

It’s Complicated

A former PBS producer who was sexually harassed by her then boss, Charlie Rose, reflects on what #MeToo got wrong about women in the workplace

Who’s to Blame for the Biden Mess?

On this week’s podcast, Todd S. Purdum discusses how we got here—and what’s next

FAMM Fatales

Europe’s first private museum dedicated solely to art made by women opens in Mougins, France, featuring works by Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, and Marina Abramović

Thomas Doherty

After playing cheeky bad boys in High Fidelity and Gossip Girl, the 29-year-old actor is taking on a much darker role in his first indie film, Dandelion

Klaus Kremmerz’s Sketchbook

Lunch with David Duchovny

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the X-Files star shows host Bruce Bozzi his literary side and talks about getting into the podcast game

Bedroom Politics

Rally the Troops

A Ukrainian journalist’s firsthand account of Russia’s invasion of his country

All You Need Is Loot

The market for Beatles memorabilia is valued in the billions and continues to climb. But will your kids care if you own John and Yoko’s Delft porcelain toilet?

A Very Deadly Year

Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Georges Simenon all published murderous masterpieces in the same year. Why?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

In Bed with Marvin Gaye

In an unpublished interview—given months before he was shot dead 40 years ago—the Prince of Soul talked police brutality, European decency, and his explicit new single

The Patron Saint of Canoeing

The amiable adventurer Bill Mason was like a cross between David Attenborough and Bob Ross

Xuetong Wang’s Sketchbook

Dream Time Alfresco

Way above 96th Street, Shakespeare’s midsummer madness in classical Harlem Renaissance style