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Danielle Kosann’s Sketchbook

Out of This World

Ghana’s buzziest young artist talks finding inspiration for his supernatural paintings

French Exit

Five titans of the Parisian literati have left one of the city’s most distinguished publishing houses, amid accusations that Sarkozy is now pulling the strings

Rehabilitating Mozart

When Peter Sellars and Teodora Currentzis shook up Salzburg with La Clemenza di Tito

Arsenic and Old Lace

Staff Picks

This week, don’t miss the tale of one hospital’s pandemic triumphs and screwups; a searing account of Kabul’s fall; and a history of the Getty dynasty

Once More, with Feeling

Alan Cumming stars in a documentary about a 30-year-old Scotsman who went back to high school, posing as a 16-year-old student

Milton Avery, Re-Discovered

The Pig League

After the Flood

Decades before climate change became irrefutable, the English novelist J. G. Ballard envisioned a much warmer world with vastly higher sea levels

The Only Podcast You Need

How did menopause suddenly get so sexy? We’ve got answers. Plus, Errol Morris on Donald Trump

Unforgotten

Since 2006, the site Neglected Books has championed wrongly overlooked novels. Now it’s republishing them

Making Banksy

A new book compiles graffiti by the elusive street artist, from the 1990s to today

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Sketchbook

The Old Man and the Son

Before January 6, There Was Seven Days in May

J.F.K. was haunted by the book that outlined how a right-wing coup could happen in America. The movie still rivets audiences

Her Sixth Tony

The riveting Audra McDonald channels Billie Holiday in decline

Growing Pains

Flash Back

Three decades on, Harry Flashman, the philandering protagonist of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman series, is still sympathetic

Murder, They Wrote

Killers, poseurs, and arrivistes … criminals with social ambition and a taste for vengeance dominate this month’s new mystery novels

Big Tobacco, but for Big Fish

Investigating the dark underbelly of salmon farming, journalists find echoes of the oil and tobacco industries

A Poet’s Painter

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