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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Calder on Their Minds

A Seattle power-collector couple’s love for the great American artist of suspended sculptures reaches new heights at the Seattle Art Museum

A Head for Business, a Body for Sin

From Virginia Woolf to Carolee Schneemann, a new book explores the role of the female body in art

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

By the Letter

Stanley Kubrick’s Waterloo

Having just tackled the end of the world and the mysteries of the universe, the obsessive director set his sights on Napoleon. Tens of thousands of index cards later, he waved the white flag

Lunch with Nicole Avant

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, host Bruce Bozzi is joined by the former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas to talk about family, grief, and growing up in Hollywood

Are You in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir?

On this week’s podcast, George Kalogerakis reveals how we created the Streisand Index

Nia DaCosta

With The Marvels, 34-year-old Nia DaCosta is now the youngest director of a Marvel movie, and the first Black woman to have a go at the franchise

Mommy and Lee

From The Office to the Lab

Lee Eisenberg knows funny. But he and his wife, Emily Jane Fox, learned a lot working together on Lessons in Chemistry

Making Up for Lost Time

After a decade-long wait, a follow-up to the best-selling debut thriller I Am Pilgrim is here

My Name Is Barbra’s Index

Streisand refused to give readers any shortcuts to her 992-page memoir, so we did it for you

Your Grandmother’s Oklahoma!

“Better than the original!” raved Mary Rodgers, the composer’s daughter

The Beatles’ Dark Horse

Across the Jillyverse

Publishing her 18th novel at 86 years old, novelist Jilly Cooper is as prolific—and ready to talk about sex—as ever

Joining “the Firm”

An aspiring journalist from New Delhi gets a private tour of Kensington Palace—his new girlfriend’s childhood home

The C-Spot

Nothing validates the dictum that the U.S. and the U.K. are “two nations divided by a common language” quite like this single, four-letter word

The New Tribes of London

The traditional types—the Hampstead Intellectual, the Chelsea Hooray, the Shoreditch Hipster—have bitten the dust. Meet the new clichés populating the city’s streets

From Tree to Tree

The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family

Far from the Madding Hive Mind

Inside the UnHerd Club, London’s liveliest—and most controversial—new literary salon

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

School for Scoundrels

Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling

The Silent Treatment