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Magnum Opus

A new book celebrates the history and legacy of the Magnum Photos cooperative with work by Eve Arnold, Werner Bischof, René Burri, Martin Parr, and Alessandra Sanguinetti

The Art-World Underbelly

The Truth in Search of Itself

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Flyboys

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’s new Apple+ series, about the gallant Americans who flew Flying Fortresses over Germany, is a big-budget masterpiece. A historian weighs in

One Thing Ledes to Another

The longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin discusses his early years in journalism, humor in the Internet era, and his new essay collection, The Lede

Slow Burner

Jack Lowden and Gary Oldman steal the show in Slow Horses, the sleeper hit that captures the mundanity and pettiness, not the glamour, of M.I.5

The True Story Behind Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

On this week’s podcast, Sam Kashner reveals why the writer “built an atomic bomb” that destroyed his life

The Princess and the Pie Shop

Sutton Foster bounces from the Encores! Once upon a Mattress straight to Broadway’s hit revival of Sweeney Todd

Hot Coals

The German-British artist Frank Auerbach’s charcoal portraits go on show in London

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

The Culture of Revolution

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a biography of a pioneering classicist, a reissued novel about a secret World War II mission, and an account of the Russian Civil War

Faces for Radio

In the Know, Peacock’s stop-motion send-up of the public-radio set, is modeled on the NPR boobs you know and love

Review Bombers

The influential, Amazon-owned Web site Goodreads has been infiltrated by scammers and trolls extorting authors and destroying careers—largely targeting Black and L.G.B.T.Q.+ writers. So what now?

Live from Laurel Canyon

A new book of photographs by Henry Diltz chronicles the story of the band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, America’s own Beatles

What Happens When a Nepo Baby Makes a Movie?

This week, Stuart Heritage looks at Lola, a film by David Beckham’s daughter-in-law

Another Universe

A new production of Nelken stays true to the late choreographer Pina Bausch’s innovative work of dance theater

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Mahabharata of Literary Festivals

Forget glitchy microphones and cheap white wine. The Jaipur Literature Festival is the biggest and best of its kind in the world

Down the Rabbit Hole

Free Spirit

Extra Credit

Highly competitive, Da’Vine Joy Randolph transitioned seamlessly from Yale University drama student to opera singer, and now to Oscar nominee, for her masterful performance in The Holdovers

Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook