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Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

Museum-Going Etiquette

Spoiler alert: you’re not the most fascinating thing in the place

War Games

Top Shop

The author, whose new book is out this fall, selects his favorite Scottish bookshop

Bauhaus Revival

Next in Line

In Season Two of HBO’s Succession, Sarah Snook proves she’s worthy of the Roy throne

In the Picture

Candice Bergen, Star Reporter

A “very lucky” actor and the photojournalism career that got away

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

All Work and No Playlist? Hardly!

Here are Donna Summer, Howlin’ Wolf, Queen, Betty Everett, and more

The Longest Day

Inspectors About Town

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

A Guide to the Venice Biennale

Trick of the Light

A Higher Power

A new biography offers a look into the diary of Israel’s founder

Anna Sui in Color

Short List

Blonde Venus

The Swedish bombshell who blew up Italian movies

Smyth on Smith

Jacqueline Woodson

Selects three of this year’s best novels

After Dark

Fashionable Tracks

Danceable ones, too, from (among others) Beyoncé, Rihanna, Destiny’s Child, and, yes, Freezy

Wondering Eye

François Halard’s photography gets inside the homes and studios—and aesthetic experiences—of artists