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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
In Basel, Anne Sofie von Otter dismantles Schubert’s Winterreise, to transformative effect
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss the story of a family fight over inheritance, a history of the White House Situation Room, and a biography of the great sportswriter Grant Wahl
The Renegade’s Tale
In an interview, Margaret Atwood discusses everything from Donald Trump to her newest story, “Cut & Thirst”
Dafydd Jones’s Guide to New York City
The British photographer who captured Manhattan’s high society in the 80s and 90s shares his favorite—and most nostalgic—New York spots
O.K., Groomer
A reporter’s dispatch from the trenches of the gender-and-sexuality wars in schools across the U.S. portends a perilous future for L.G.B.T.Q. teens
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books range from a thriller spelling out the origins of Fascism in England to a literary whodunit reminiscent of The Thursday Murder Club
Station Havens
A new book offers a dazzling tour of 20th- and 21st-century railway architecture, from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof to Chengdu’s Line 9
Last House on the Trad Right
William F. Buckley Jr. learned his brand of conservative radicalism at his family’s sprawling Connecticut home, now up for sale
Sex and the A.I. Girl
On this week’s podcast, Flora Gill reveals why so many people are having affairs with digital companions
The Afterlife of the Bauhaus
An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism
Honor Levy
With My First Book, the very online It Girl is defining Gen Z fiction
Soaringly Sozzled Onstage
Withnail and I is one of the most beloved—and bibulous—British films of all time. But can this bucolic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas be properly adapted into a play?
Single-Mother’s Day
World War II left my mother a widow. But I didn’t have to go looking for a father figure. I had Irma
Oedipus Flex
Elizabeth Hurley’s erotic thriller—written and directed by her 22-year-old son—is one for the Freudians
There Will Be Bloods
How the pioneering American dynasty both witnessed and shaped the creation of the United States
Iké Udé’s Guide to Lagos
From beach clubs to hidden art hubs, the Nigerian-American photographer and performer shares his go-to’s in his native city
A Ballet with a Twist
Cathy Marston premieres Atonement, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel and her first creation as the new director of Ballett Zürich