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The Family Jewels

The Victoria and Albert Museum is paying tribute to Cartier with a glittering new show. Jacques Cartier’s great-granddaughter walks us through it

An Ode to the Humble Paperback

From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Bright Lights, Big City to A Little Life, books that were better the next time around

Shrink Rap

Elephant Man

The secret history of the Asian elephants that Belgium’s Leopold II dispatched to Africa in service of his ruthless colonial vision

Mimi Keene

The British actress wanted to become a veterinarian. Then roles alongside Gillian Anderson, in Sex Education, and Anjelica Huston, in Towards Zero, came calling

The Last Renaissance Man

Ely Callaway went from running the Burlington textile company to founding ultra-successful wine and golf businesses—all while hiding a lifelong secret

Nazi Loot In Limbo

Jake Heggie’s chamber opera Before It All Goes Dark

Churchill’s Angels

How a secret W.W. II–era British spy ring fought the Nazis from New York’s Rockefeller Center—and how a female agent almost lost her life in the process

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss 75 newly reissued editions of Georges Simenon’s detective novels, featuring the French inspector Jules Maigret

Stephanie Suberville’s Guide to San Miguel de Allende

The fashion designer and co-founder of Heirlome shares her go-to spots in the Mexican city

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Taylor Swift, Harvard M.B.A.?

On this week’s podcast, Kevin Evers reveals the business insights we all can steal from Tay-Tay

Cocktails for the End of the World

Situated just outside of Brussels, the world’s only R.E.M.-themed bar acts as a modest, mellow shrine for the band’s devoted, graying fans

Island of Tragedy

E. A. Hanks

Tom Hanks’s daughter makes her literary debut with a revelatory memoir

Hee-Haw, Taylor Swift!

It’s hard to recall a time when the singer wasn’t topping charts and bringing home Grammys. But her success was far from a sure bet

The Blood of an Englishman

One of the most sensational murders in recent British history becomes, in Robert Icke’s Manhunt, a moving disquisition on male rage, societal failure, and madness

Terroir Terror

A former sommelier at a four-star New York City restaurant recalls a harrowing sexual assault she experienced behind the scenes of the fine-dining world

Tintoretto’s Magnum Opus

An exhibition in Cincinnati unveils three newly restored works by the Italian Renaissance painter and rival of Titian

Requiem for a Continent

Ahead of Earth Day, photojournalist Guillaume Bonn’s haunting images expose the dark side of Africa’s wildlife havens, which are increasingly falling victim to unchecked industrialism

Paper Trails

A charming new exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum, in Amherst, pays tribute to an often overlooked aspect of picture book–making: endpapers

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a mountain climber’s account of sailing from Maine to Alaska, an examination of the air we breathe, and a look back at J.F.K. and Nikita Khrushchev’s Cold War–era diplomacy

False Prophets

How an investigation into a Mormon murder spree led one author to uncover the lurid world of America’s New Age movement—cult leaders, reincarnation, QAnon, and all

Annabelle Selldorf’s Guide to Cologne

The German architect behind the Frick Collection’s new renovation shares her favorite restaurants, sights, and shops in her hometown