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Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook

King Charles’s Trump Card

“Sorry, chap, you’ve got to take one for the team”: the monarch announced that he is downgrading Trump’s state visit to a Pizza Express lunch with Prince Andrew

A Broken Bond

Choosing the new James Bond is no longer in the hands of seasoned 007 casting director Debbie McWilliams but, rather, Amazon’s tech bros. What could go wrong?

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a look inside Winston Churchill’s country sanctuary, a poetry collection all about water, and the story of the Soviet botanists trapped in the siege of Leningrad

The Blind Side

After a devastating childhood acid attack, Joshua Miele turned his pain to purpose by inventing technology for the visually impaired

Alexia Hentsch’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro

The Brazilian fashion designer shares her favorite spots in her adopted city

How Annie Hall Went from Disaster to Masterpiece

On this week’s podcast, Alex Belth reveals how Woody Allen transformed his movie in the editing room

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Hackman Connection

Inside the wild, epic filming of William Friedkin’s The French Connection, which made a star of the late Gene Hackman

A Tale of Two Beans

Two years after its unveiling, at the base of a Manhattan luxury tower, Anish Kapoor’s smaller “bean” is way more controversial than its Chicago predecessor

The Short and the Long of It

Despite its controversial portrayal of dwarfism, the Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant sitcom Life’s Too Short still has star Warwick Davis begging for its return a decade later

Once upon a Time in Hollywood

De Niro! Prince! Madonna! From Oscar parties to parking lots, Dafydd Jones’s L.A. photos capture a bygone era

Lady and the Little Tramp

Among Charlie Chaplin’s many ill-fated trysts, perhaps his most disastrous was with Joan Barry, a woman 30 years his junior

Annie Hall Before Annie Hall

How Woody Allen and his team turned an unusable first cut into a love story for the ages—and one of the few comedies ever to win the Academy Award for best picture

Remembrance of Things Proust

An exhibition in Madrid showcases the art and culture that influenced the 20th-century French writer

Delaney Buffett

The daughter of the “Margaritaville” singer honors her late father with her new film, Adult Best Friends

Anjelica Huston’s Class Act

The actress discusses growing up among Hollywood royalty, her enduring relationship with Jack Nicholson, and her latest role, in a new Agatha Christie adaptation

Hollywood’s Divided Heart

Carmen Goes to the Movies

On film, Grace Bumbry’s exhilarating debut in an iconic signature role

Failure to Launch

Alexandra Winkler’s Guide to Vienna

The co-owner of Hotel Sacher shares her favorite spots in her home city

Family Business

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have a new reality-TV show, and nothing—from his fatal shooting to her Spanish accent, to their seven children and cats and dogs—is off the table

Face Value

A new exhibition cracks open The Face’s archives, featuring more than 200 images from the pages of the pre-eminent culture-and-style magazine of 1980s London

Storm Ascher

The 30-year-old founder of Superposition Gallery wants to redefine the modern gallery with her nomadic approach