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Peter Kuper’s Sketchbook

The Indie Revolution

In the British book world, risk-averse legacy publishers are losing all the top literary prizes to small, experimental publishing houses

Logging On

To write about three troubled girls’ deaths, a journalist looked at their online lives. Through her research, she found the limits of digital sleuthing

Family Values

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a look at a 1960s artistic epicenter, the saga of two men rowing across the Atlantic, and a fresh take on the 1968 presidential election

Most Voluble Players

Changing His Tune

For decades, Jeff Goldblum has been a beloved actor and a sex symbol. Now, at age 70, he’s also becoming a jazz pianist

Lunch with Sarah Jessica Parker

On this week’s Table for Two, host Bruce Bozzi escapes the city heat on Long Island with the And Just Like That… actress

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Inside the Strategy to Free the Idaho-Murders Suspect

On this week’s episode, Howard Blum reveals the audacious plan to win an acquittal

Hilma of the Spirits

When Amusement Reigned

The pavilions and garden follies of pre-revolutionary France are collected in a charming new coffee-table book

Magical Thinking

A retrospective of Remedios Varo’s mystical paintings puts the spotlight on the long-overlooked Surrealist

Highway to Nowhere

In an interview, the writers David Samuels and Walter Kirn discuss County Highway, a new, print-only broadsheet that bills itself as “a magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper”

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Stealing God’s Stuff

He is best remembered as the author of the children’s classics Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. But is E. B. White also the forgotten prophet of our nuclear doom?

Dutchman in Dry Dock

Asmik Grigorian redeems Bayreuth’s non-seaworthy Der Fliegende Holländer

Facing the Music

A look back at the early days of the recording industry, before the advent of microphones and volume control

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a sprawling anthology of the true-crime genre, a look at Teddy Roosevelt’s longest friendship, and a compact history of music

Best in Grow

In England, the village show presents a ripe opportunity to show off

The Afterlife of Pablo

Paloma Picasso, who is taking control of her father’s estate, on defending the artist’s legacy from revisionists

Klaus Kremmerz’s Sketchbook

Trinity Rodman

At just 21, the record-breaking soccer star, who happens to be Dennis Rodman’s daughter, is taking the field in the FIFA Women’s World Cup

To All the Demon-Lovers