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Reality Check

From the French Proverbe to the English Experiment, a new coffee-table book surveys the avant-garde journals that paved the way for the 1920s’ Surrealist movement

Clarion Top Notes, Plus His Head on a Cake Stand

Elza van den Heever, the Met’s new Salome, delivers the whole package

The Last Renaissance Man

Ely Callaway went from running the Burlington textile company to founding ultra-successful wine and golf businesses—all while hiding a lifelong secret

Nazi Loot In Limbo

Jake Heggie’s chamber opera Before It All Goes Dark

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss 75 newly reissued editions of Georges Simenon’s detective novels, featuring the French inspector Jules Maigret

Churchill’s Angels

How a secret W.W. II–era British spy ring fought the Nazis from New York’s Rockefeller Center—and how a female agent almost lost her life in the process

Stephanie Suberville’s Guide to San Miguel de Allende

The fashion designer and co-founder of Heirlome shares her go-to spots in the Mexican city

Island of Tragedy

Hee-Haw, Taylor Swift!

It’s hard to recall a time when the singer wasn’t topping charts and bringing home Grammys. But her success was far from a sure bet

Cocktails for the End of the World

Situated just outside of Brussels, the world’s only R.E.M.-themed bar acts as a modest, mellow shrine for the band’s devoted, graying fans

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Terroir Terror

A former sommelier at a four-star New York City restaurant recalls a harrowing sexual assault she experienced behind the scenes of the fine-dining world

The Blood of an Englishman

One of the most sensational murders in recent British history becomes, in Robert Icke’s Manhunt, a moving disquisition on male rage, societal failure, and madness

Requiem for a Continent

Ahead of Earth Day, photojournalist Guillaume Bonn’s haunting images expose the dark side of Africa’s wildlife havens, which are increasingly falling victim to unchecked industrialism

Taylor Swift, Harvard M.B.A.?

On this week’s podcast, Kevin Evers reveals the business insights we all can steal from Tay-Tay

Tintoretto’s Magnum Opus

An exhibition in Cincinnati unveils three newly restored works by the Italian Renaissance painter and rival of Titian

Paper Trails

A charming new exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum, in Amherst, pays tribute to an often overlooked aspect of picture book–making: endpapers

E. A. Hanks

Tom Hanks’s daughter makes her literary debut with a revelatory memoir

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a mountain climber’s account of sailing from Maine to Alaska, an examination of the air we breathe, and a look back at J.F.K. and Nikita Khrushchev’s Cold War–era diplomacy

False Prophets

How an investigation into a Mormon murder spree led one author to uncover the lurid world of America’s New Age movement—cult leaders, reincarnation, QAnon, and all

Annabelle Selldorf’s Guide to Cologne

The German architect behind the Frick Collection’s new renovation shares her favorite restaurants, sights, and shops in her hometown

Death at the “Fritz Ritz”

Matthew Rhys Gets Personal

The Welsh actor discusses meeting his wife, Keri Russell, on The Americans—and his role in the new Agatha Christie adaptation, Towards Zero

Hallucinating Graydon Carter

Following the publication of When the Going Was Good, A.I.-generated rip-offs have flooded the market—how do they stack up?