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Murder, They Wrote

Mystery books past and present honor Queen Elizabeth II and the kingdom she leaves behind

Surveying Cézanne

Caio Twombly

The 26-year-old curator spotlights young artists at his new East Village gallery

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

Seriously Stevie

Turning Point

Patrice Chéreau’s “Centennial Ring” at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976 changed history

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a look back at the 1920s’ most transfixing murder, the final installment of a three-part history of Napoleon, and a robust argument for prison reform

Mind Games

The New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv, whose debut book is out now, discusses mental illness in its many forms

Memories of Mantel

Hilary Mantel’s longtime editor remembers the singular talent and warm generosity of the writer who brought us the Thomas Cromwell trilogy

Fernando Casablancas

The model and artist makes his TV debut in a reality show about downtown Manhattan’s creative class

Abbott and Costello Go to Bat Against Monkeypox

And the result is a comedy of errors

The Last Laugh

Fawlty Towers could never be made today. But 47 years after it premiered, the show still perfectly captures a certain type of small-minded, social-climbing, xenophobic Englishman who is now all but extinct

The Shock of the New

Lauren Tamaki’s Sketchbook

Star Quality

The Dark Side of Social-Media Influencers

Plus: Is New York still the city that never sleeps?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Night at the Opera

The little-known story of two British spinsters who saved dozens of Jewish musicians during World War II—and the Viennese star composer who helped them do it

Survivor, D.C. Edition

The new genre of books taking over Washington? Memoirs by Trump-administration survivors who tried to do their work in the midst of insanity

Their Back Pages

The Byrds invented folk rock and went on to become founding fathers of psychedelic rock, jazz rock, and country rock. A new book revisits the band’s mid-60s prime

Incantation

Decaying film stock, the Song of Songs, and the seraphic soprano of Angel Blue

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a buoyant account of the sunken Titanic, the origin story of Manhattan’s favorite T. rex, and a search for the real “Torso Killer”

The Goldman Years

In her memoir, a former Goldman Sachs financial analyst reckons with her two decades of short-selling stocks and enduring finance bros’ sexism

Race to the Bottom