A Letter From Santa Claus Between the new tariffs, ICE crackdowns, and naval hostilities in the Atlantic, Christmas is going to be a little different this year
At Christmas, You Tell the Truth The romantic-comedy king Richard Curtis reveals never-before-heard details about the making of the holiday classic Love Actually
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The Dickens of Detroit On the centenary of Elmore Leonard’s birth, a look back at how the American novelist redefined the crime genre with his colorful characters and unvarnished prose
When Ulysses Came to New York How Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House and famed publisher of Eugene O’Neill and Truman Capote, brought James Joyce’s controversial novel to the U.S.
Surviving Picasso In her new book, Hidden Portraits, Sue Roe unpacks the little-known stories of the women who fell for the notorious womanizer
Architecture’s Black Sheep With more than 200 archival works, an exhibition in Chicago honors Bruce Goff, the Frank Lloyd Wright protégé whose eccentric midcentury houses broke free of modernist restraint
