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Both Sides Now

Meet Harriet Walter, master-mistress of Shakespearean voices, now onstage in Bath

Inside “the Playpen”

Booze, jet packs, “Join, or Die” flags, and the occasional severed limb: welcome to Chicago’s most controversial party spot

Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook

Chez Picasso

From the Côte d’Azur to the Rue des Grands-Augustins, a new exhibition in Dublin maps the artist’s career through the various French homes where he worked

Water Falling at Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest achievement is suffering from a bad case of nominative determinism

Fifty Shades of Heathcliff

Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights—where Victorian British yearning meets Down Under B.D.S.M.—has the literary set clutching their pearls

The Sway of Peter Sellers

Woody Allen, Christopher Guest, and Geoffrey Rush recall the influence of the great comic actor, who was born 100 years ago

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Face Time

From Whitney Houston to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Louise Bourgeois to Kate Moss, a new coffee-table book collects a lifetime of portraits by the photographer Bruce Weber

When Gen Z Discovered Dubya

On this week’s podcast, Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz explain why Gen Z thinks George W. Bush is so cool

Homer’s Heroines

She Come Groovin’ Up Slowly

How Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the wife of the infamous psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary, sparked one of the Beatles’ greatest hits

Rosa Esteva’s Guide to Majorca

The fashion designer and founder of Cortana shares her favorite spots on the island she calls home

The Bureau of Unbelievable Statistics

Who better to be Trump’s data czar than the disgraced former congressman George Santos?

Back from the Dead

Jim Marshall’s Grateful Dead photos, capturing the calm and chaos of the 1960s rock ’n’ roll scene, are collected in a new coffee-table book

Hex and the City

Jonathan Mahler reveals how the late 1980s in the city foreshadowed this year’s mayoral race—and the Trump presidency

Wet Hot American Summer

The backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol. And this summer, it’s more fetishized than ever

A Pragmatic Progressive’s Lament

Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of the Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on free speech, protests, and liberalism

A Match Made in Dance Heaven

For the first time, Manhattan’s Joyce Theater organizes its Ballet Festival around a single choreographer, Jerome Robbins, in a program curated by Tiler Peck, a principal dancer at New York City Ballet

Corey Mylchreest

With starring roles in the romantic comedy My Oxford Year and the Julie Delpy–led political thriller, Hostage, the 27-year-old actor is spearheading the revival of Cool Britannia

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Love in the Time of Content Creators

On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David tells us how Gen Z has taken all the fun out of wedding proposals

The Price of Being a Kennedy

The show-runner and producer of a new documentary series ask, Why is the world still obsessed with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy?

Bright Young Things