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The High Priestess of Grind House Stephanie Rothman was a rare female director in 1970s Hollywood. What kept her from following in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese?

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Up Close With Mekki Leeper The Emmy-nominated Jury Duty and Sex Lives of College Girls actor stars in the new mockumentary sitcom St. Denis Medical


Candice Bergen’s Favorite Things The five-time Emmy Award winner answers 24 of life’s most pressing questions

How to Know if You’re Common Decorator, bon vivant—and still enjoying cocaine at 85—Nicky Haslam releases his annual list of the tacky and unsophisticated

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Teenage Wasteland A new book of photographs by Beth Garrabrant—the artist behind Taylor Swift’s recent album covers—documents youth in the American suburbs

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The Dorothy Parker Tapes A biographer of the great 20th-century wit goes in search of 12 hours’ worth of lost recordings made by Gloria Vanderbilt’s husband Wyatt Cooper

The Logistics of Terror France’s leading nonfiction writer, Emmanuel Carrère, offers a hard-hitting account of the 2015 Bataclan terrorist attacks in Paris in his new book


Alive and Kicking Edwin Frank, the founder of New York Review Books Classics, looks back on the riveting history of the 20th-century novel

Paradise Found Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania’s celebrated arboretum and a pioneer public garden, unveils its new, 17-acre expansion

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Anthony Hopenhajm’s Favorite Things The owner and artistic director of American heritage-jewelry house Seaman Schepps (Wallis Simpson and Jackie Onassis were clients) and Trianon keeps a Filson duffel, Faber-Castell pencils, and Huberd’s Shoe Grease at the ready

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The Dark Side of Alain Delon He played charming but icy characters on-screen. The available evidence suggests that he was one in real life

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