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Mortality and Mercy in Vienna

As Shakespeare’s “duke of dark corners” in Measure for Measure, Mark Rylance finds real life full of shocking surprises

All Things Dickens

Inside Job

Jayme Lawson

Since graduating from Juilliard, the young actress has gone from an Off Broadway performance to The Batman. Next up: a young Michelle Obama

All About Andy

The former editor of Warhol’s Interview magazine on what Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series, The Andy Warhol Diaries, gets right and wrong

Head for Figures

An Evening with Aristotle Onassis

A new one-man play recounts the turbulent life—from telephone operator to the world’s richest man—of the Greek shipping magnate, Jackie O and all …

Morten Morland’s Sketchbook

Second Sight

A New York Times Opinion writer comes to terms with a partial loss of vision

Brick and Mortar

Get off Zoom and into the office, with these songs—by the Isley Brothers, Willie Hutch, the Talking Heads, and more—as your soundtrack

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The 96-Year Itch

At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due

Wild Westerners

The Best and Worst of Times

Oligarch Helpline

Yachts being scuttled, accounts being frozen, sniggers at Sexy Fish. Russian autocrats are people, too. And right now, they need assistance

Donald Trump, Party Crasher

Dana Brown was plucked from his bartending post to work at Vanity Fair in its golden era. One of his jobs was manning the door at dinner parties—and keeping the uninvited out

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

One Journalist Who Actually Stood Up to Trump

The truth about what happened the night The Donald got turned away from a Vanity Fair party

Roll Over, Walt Disney!

Beethoven’s animated Creatures of Prometheus from the Philharmonia makes Fantasia look like, well, Fantasia

Keeping Mum

Maria Montessori is best known for her pioneering educational theory. Here, a look at her little-known, long-secret role as a mother

State of the Arts

Notes from the Inside

Isabel May

Ahead of Sunday’s 1883 finale, the Hollywood starlet looks onward

David Lynch Comes to Greenwich, Connecticut

A very twisted sex scandal, the invasion of Ukraine, and more in this week’s podcast