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The Bigger Apple

The Man in the Black Turtleneck

A hit at the Santa Fe Opera in 2017, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs has its video premiere in a new production from Atlanta

Old Flames

Touching Base

The effect of Jackie Robinson on the lives of average Americans of color is well documented. But he was instrumental for other baseball players of color, too

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a biography of the American painter Winslow Homer; a little-told story about Benjamin Franklin; and a memoir turned meditation on books

Child’s Play

Nicolas Party’s techno-colored art is on view in Canada. In an interview, the artist discusses fairy tales, nature, and the power of pastel

A Grand Tour of Italy, but Make It Modern

The intimate, under-the-radar homes and studios of 20th-century Italian architects, artists, and designers, from Achille Castiglioni and Gae Aulenti to Giorgio Morandi, are as stunning as the country’s ancient and Renaissance treasures. And they’re open to the public

The Sages of Montecito

Harry and Meghan offer Netflix some business tips

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Murder, They Wrote

Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic

Ways of Escape

Shady Lady

Spires, Squires, and Liars

A contemporary of Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s traces Brexit, and the state of politics in Britain today, back to 1980s Oxford

Sergey Elkin

The Lost Fans of CNN+

Management snuffed the new network after 32 days. Yet there were plenty of fans out there!

The Inside Story on Anna Wintour

You bring the coffee; we’ll bring the buzz

A Guide to the Venice Biennale

Tom Blyth

The British actor went from sidewalk charity campaigner to the star of a new series on Billy the Kid

Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object

A tempestuous English-language Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren

Don’t Look Up

Coronavirus deniers are following the climate-change-denial playbook to a tee. Will the cycle ever break?

Breathing Fire

Gary Indiana has a new collection of essays, Fire Season. In an interview, the outspoken critic lets loose on young writers, politicians, and just about everyone else

Power Trip

What Is Princess Di’s Brother Talking About?

It’s the Bridgerton effect. Everyone wants to cash in on the U.K.’s great estates