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Brancusi’s Magnum Opus

Bronze, wood, marble, stone … the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, presents the sculptor’s largest retrospective since 1995

Randy Andy Goes Postal

The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie

Spring Breakers

A new book of photographs evokes the sun-and-booze-soaked days of British holidayers in southern Spain during the 60s and beyond

Who’s Killing the Great Languages of Europe?

On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino reports on why—from Italy to Germany to France—English is now on everyone’s tongue

Three Faces of Lise

The Norwegian soprano of the hour explores the heroines of Richard Strauss

A Touch of Smut

Wayne Koestenbaum has been writing seriously salacious poetry for decades. A new collection about New York and its denizens gets down and dirty

Reaching for the Starman

How a stylist went from cutting David Bowie’s mother’s hair to joining the rockstar’s rollicking Ziggy Stardust tour

Introducing the Vermont Country Store’s New Adult Section

Where kinky meets crunchy

Princess Diana’s Brother Lived His Own Special Hell

On this week’s podcast, Pico Iyer discusses Charles Spencer’s new book, A Very Private School

A Window in His Heart

Alex Gibney’s new documentary chronicles Paul Simon’s course from voice of a generation to aging performer who’s not ready to hang up his guitar

Photography’s Shooting Star

Exhibitions in London and New York honor the prodigious photographer who left behind a timeless body of work following her death, at just 22

The Deformative Years

Death Became Her

A Mission from God

How an epic friendship born out of quaaludes, comedy, and a shared love of R&B paved the way for The Blues Brothers

Anthony Boyle

The Irish actor perfected a Southern drawl to play John Wilkes Booth in Apple TV+’s new thriller

Paul Cox’s Sketchbook

Murder, They Wrote

Revenge—served hot, cold, and everywhere in between—dominates this month’s new mystery books

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Last Angry Man

Rex Reed is one of a dying breed—the pugnacious, no-holds-barred movie critic beholden to neither publicist nor star

A Match Made in Design Heaven

Heidi Weber, the Swiss furniture gallerist, believed in Le Corbusier’s vision more than anyone. Together, they formed an exceptional partnership

Plot Twist

Six years after his blockbuster debut thriller—and a scandal about his credibility—A. J. Finn publishes his much-anticipated follow-up novel

Is a Porn Star All That Stands Between Trump and the End of Democracy?

On this week’s podcast, Jeffrey Toobin explains how Stormy Daniels might be America’s last best hope

The Truman Show

For a young assistant at Random House in the summer of 1978, Friday afternoons meant one thing: babysitting Truman Capote