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Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a retelling of Western history through 14 thinkers, a deep dive into the places that define Manhattan, and an exploration of private space travel

Tall Tales

How super-tall, pencil-thin buildings are changing Manhattan’s classic skyline

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Joni Mitchell’s Second Act

Owning the Lits

Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?

Bons Mots and Bad Turns

Back to the Beginning

DeSantis Campaign Contributors

He reportedly raised more than $8 million within 24 hours of announcing his candidacy for president. Just who the hell is giving Ron DeSantis all this money?

The Last Hurrah

A new book collects the 1980s party photographs of Dafydd Jones, chronicler of British high society at its most riotous, just as that world was coming to an end

The Diary of Hannah Goslar

In an excerpt from her memoir, Anne Frank’s closest childhood friend recalls the years leading up to their deportations, and their against-all-odds reunion

On Targets

In 1968, Peter Bogdanovich directed his first film, about what was then an uncommon event: a mass shooting. It haunted him to the end

Should You Move to Athens? (All the Cool Kids Are)

On this week’s podcast: Greece’s new hot spot, an Oscars mess, and the man who may take down Putin

Lunch with Douglas Brinkley

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the historian talks about his plan with Sean Penn to save the world, Silent Spring Revolution, and why starting small isn’t such a bad thing when it comes to environmental work

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Kathryn Bromwich

How a bout of long COVID during the height of the pandemic gave way to a London editor’s debut novel

The Show Won’t Go On

A screenwriter’s dispatch from the Writers Guild of America picket line

Unto Us a Child Is Born

At the National Theatre, The Book of Dust is a lite prequel to His Dark Materials

Spring Migration

The Ghanian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey brings an iteration of his “Afrogallonism” series to the Venice Architecture Biennale

The Name’s Bond … Woke Bond

In an interview, Charlie Higson discusses his new Bond novel and how he adapts the womanizing spy for our times

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss David Remnick’s collected profiles of musicians, a new biography of Martin Luther King Jr., and the story of two poets’ wartime friendship

The Final Countdown

In an interview, the historian Evan Thomas discusses how Russian spies, Harry Truman’s denial, and an immunity to writer’s block played into his new book, on the last days of W.W. II

Eminently Ridiculous

The War That Never Ended

Fifty years after the last American troops left, Vietnam is thriving. The U.S., meanwhile, is still dealing with the aftermath—unconsciously or not

Addressing the Rat in the Room

It’s time the humans of New York City made a good-faith effort to understand their four-legged neighbors