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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Poetry in Motion

More than 100 of William Blake’s drawings, prints, and paintings go up in New Haven, showcasing the British poet’s visionary talent for blending art and language

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)

Hold the Mayo

There is no such thing as a safe lunch

Confessions of a Barneys-a-holic

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

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

A new book traces the tumultuous history of man and wolf—and debunks the myth of the “alpha” once and for all

Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda’s Guide to Venice

The Italian glassware designer shares his favorite spots in his hometown

Of Mars and Men

Inspired by a Double Bagel

How the most one-sided defeat of Carlos Alcaraz’s life paved the way for his ascent to the top of the tennis world—and his moneymaking drop shot

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Echo of Art Deco

The architectural style was born 100 years ago. Its influence remains undiminished

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch

A tartan noir for our times, and an excellent new British heist drama

Billionaires Behaving Badly: The Summer Edition

On this week’s podcast, William D. Cohan reports from Nantucket

The Man Behind the Alien Mask

Bolaji Badejo was a six-foot-10-inch Nigerian graphic-design student in London until a chance pub encounter made him Ridley Scott’s most elegant monster

Star Turn

After decades of character roles, Paul Guilfoyle, a CSI alumnus, plays the lead in a bittersweet film about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist

R. F. Kuang

At 29 years old, the Chinese-American author of the best-selling novel Yellowface is getting ready to publish her sixth book—and complete her fourth degree

Force of Nature

An exhibition of still-life paintings by Rachel Ruysch goes up in Boston, honoring the Dutch artist whose fame in the 18th century rivaled that of Rembrandt

Blame Canada

The Toronto International Film Festival has propelled the Hollywood hype machine for the past 50 years. Here are the newest causes for excitement

Picture This

A new coffee-table book collects Martyn Goddard’s photographs of Blondie, capturing the pop-punk band at their peak in the hot New York summer of 1978

The Queen’s Gambit

Meyerbeer’s Ozymandian masterpiece Les Huguenots

The Designer Who Set Women Free

In contrast to Dior’s waist-cinching “New Look,” Claire McCardell’s “American Look” brought comfort to women’s fashion

Bedroom Politics