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In an unpublished interview—given months before he was shot dead 40 years ago—the Prince of Soul talked police brutality, European decency, and his explicit new single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

Going Rogue

Going Deep

A paleontology professor details the long history of great white sharks—and reveals what it feels like looking one in the eyes

Flying into a Rage

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is furious at airlines, mad at airports, and apoplectic about his fellow passengers not being as angry as he is

Risko’s Sketchbook

The Rest Is Fiction

Phillip Toledano’s A.I.-generated photographs of 1940s and 1950s New York, collected in a new book, blur the line between truth and fantasy

Born and Broken in the U.S.A.

The glory days of the heartland Bruce Springsteen evoked on Born in the U.S.A. 40 years ago feel like a distant memory in today’s America

The No. 1 from Hell

Recorded for the soundtrack to Four Weddings and a Funeral, “Love Is All Around” was so popular that even the band who sang it grew tired of its success

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series

Down and Out in 90s America

Adolf Hitler and the Holy Grail

On this week’s podcast, Adam Hay-Nicholls shares the incredible story about Nazis, a postwoman, and M.I.6

Lunch with Emma Roberts

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the actress tucks in with host Bruce Bozzi and discusses the importance of movies that feel nostalgic, the dangerous pull of social media, and more …

In Full Swing

In their only U.S. appearance this year, dancers from Britain’s Royal Ballet grace the venerable Jacob’s Pillow, in Massachusetts

Demimonde Dreaming

Air Mail Environments: New York

Our latest creation will immerse you in New York’s glorious sounds, from the hallowed atrium of the Metropolitan Opera to the clank and churn of the Staten Island Ferry

Bad Connection

An open challenge to the puzzle editors at The New York Times

Posing a Challenger

In the lead-up to the 1986 Challenger explosion, an engineer raised the alarm about safety concerns. His inability to stop the disaster upended his life

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a murder mystery set in Maine; a history of colonial Britain told through walking routes; and a look at Paris’s Belle Époque

The Lady Gangster of New York

Vivian Gordon made a name for herself as the sexual extortionist of Jazz Age New York. Then she disappeared

Jodie Comer

Fresh off her starring role in the West End and Broadway hit Prima Facie, the actress stars opposite Austin Butler in The Bikeriders

Is Wall Street Funding a Fourth Reich?

On this week’s podcast, Alessandra Stanley discusses Trump, tech and finance bros, and their newfound love for Trump