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Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

Glamour Is Forever

Chez Karl

A look inside the many homes of Karl Lagerfeld, from Paris to Rome, Biarritz to Lake Champlain

What Is Angelina Jolie Hiding?

On this week’s podcast, Dana Brown reveals how to sneak into her tightly guarded NoHo outpost

California Cool

A retrospective at the Palm Springs Art Museum honors the legacy of the midcentury architect Albert Frey

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Less Perfect Union

Flashbacks to the Buckley–Vidal smackdowns that changed our media landscape forever

Scaling “Mount Proust”

After reading all 3,200 pages of In Search of Lost Time, one editor explains what critics—including Cormac McCarthy—got wrong about the masterpiece

Stories of Survival

A journalist chronicles present-day Lebanon’s turbulence—from the 2020 port explosion to its current financial crisis—from the perspective of women

Phone Rage

In a new column, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is infuriated, incensed, and enraged by the world around him—particularly his new phone service

Of Human Bondage

Released more than 60 years ago, Dr. No, the first entry in the supercharged spy series, could have been just another B-rate action film. And then Sean Connery strolled in

Amicus Curious

Making a killing in the poetry biz to pursue the magic of briefs and appellate courts

Look Again

The vice-chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art at Christie’s New York recommends the 10 must-see paintings in the Met’s newly reopened European-art galleries

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Garry Winogrand in Color

A new book collects rarely seen color work by the master of postwar American street photography, from the bustling byways of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk

Shock and Awe

The provocative, World War II–era paintings of Ben Shahn are on view in a sweeping retrospective

Keeping Up with the Hösses

Based on a Martin Amis novel, The Zone of Interest is told from the perspective of an Auschwitz commandant and his family

Julia Roberts and Baroness Bra

Patrick Kidd reveals how Michelle Mone used the actress’s cleavage to carry her from Dickensian poverty to the House of Lords and, now, scandal

The Iannucci Treatment

Boris Johnson and his successors, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, are skewered on the London stage in a caustic new play by Veep and The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci

When the Music’s Over

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

“War, Tribes, and Camels Without End”

The Pace of Peace

Keeping It Real

How an art journalist challenged the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board—and incidentally revealed many of its secrets