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Are You in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir?

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

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

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

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

My Name Is Barbra’s Index

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

Making Up for Lost Time

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

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

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

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

Gerald Scarfe’s Sketchbook

Whiz Syd

A new documentary traces Syd Barrett’s enigmatic life, from co-founding Pink Floyd to dropping out of the music industry entirely

The Riling Class

Before the British Invasion, there was the satire boom. Its ground zero was a grotty strip joint turned nightclub in Soho that Peter Cook re-christened “the Establishment”

The Real Thing

Pauline Boty, Lost and Found

A long-overlooked member of the British Pop-art movement, and one of its few women, gets her due in a new biography

Graydon Carter Talks About the London He Loves

On this week’s podcast, AIR MAIL’s Co-Editor takes us inside the London Issue

Nobels “R” Us

By identifying a gap in the U.K. book market, Jacques Testard turned his kitchen-table publisher into a prizewinning literary powerhouse

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