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Sibylline Spirit The Tiburtina Ensemble of Prague brings Hildegard von Bingen to Morningside Heights

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Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss an homage to New Yorker cartoonists, a biography of the brash newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, and a heartwarming novel set in a small Irish town

Travel

Steppe by Steppe Rich with history, architecture, and dazzling new developments, Uzbekistan is courting travelers—and delivering on its promises


Scandale!

Immoral Campus France’s best-known university, responsible for educating countless world leaders, including Emmanuel Macron, is a hotbed of sexism, misogyny, drink spiking, and all-around scandal

Story Time

The Adventures of Sir Percy On the eve of his 97th birthday, Hilary Knight, the artist behind the Eloise picture books, introduces a new character: Sir Percy, a human-size frog!

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The Seasoned Traveler

Jerry Saltz The Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic reveals his travel routine

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Real-Estate Nightmare

The Wrecking Crew Last week’s surprise demolition of the White House’s East Wing wasn’t the first time Trump destroyed a great American building

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Face Value Inside South Korea’s booming plastic-surgery district, where hundreds of faces and bodies are tweaked every day

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Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a biography of artist LeRoy Neiman, a tour of New York’s hidden landmarks, a novel set in a Manhattan women’s hotel, and a new translation of Aesop’s fables

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Artistic License

A Class Act The producing artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater pays tribute to his friend James McMullan, a brilliant artist who has designed its posters for nearly four decades

Inside Story

The Write Stuff An inter-office memo highlighting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s inherent racism reveals Toni Morrison to have been as fierce an editor as she was a writer


Landing Gear

Join the Jet Set A private plane with its own parachute! A digital camera that will make your hair stand on end! Earphones designed to improve the sound quality around you! And more …

Books

Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a new edition of John Gregory Dunne’s quasi-divorce memoir, an investigation into a Manhattan-art-gallery scandal, and a short-story collection capturing life in northern China

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Style

The Boat and Tote and Me I started ironically embroidering L. L. Bean tote bags as a joke. Then it went viral

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Close-up

Honor Levy With My First Book, the very online It Girl is defining Gen Z fiction

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Close-up

Lilli Elias With her homeware brand, Autumn Sonata, the 28-year-old is using her archival-studies degree to turn antique prints into new textiles

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Small Talk

Henry Alford’s “This or That” A pop quiz of cultural phenomena

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Social Studies

Into the Wilde In Milan, a new wave of members-only clubs is transforming the city’s social fabric

Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear A temperature-controlled mug for coffee-lovers; headphones without equal; the world’s sharpest, brightest portable projector; and more


Highlight

A Poet’s Painter

Knives Out!

Hello, Doctor? For just $100, a new online concierge service will connect the procedure-curious with some of the world’s top plastic surgeons and dermatologists

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