Jaalen Best, Up Close He took his first acting class to fill a college elective. Seven years later, the 28-year-old is stepping into the role of Muhammad Ali in a new series about the boxer, and has found a mentor in Michael B. Jordan
Harry Houdini Tried to Warn Us The legendary magician, who died on Halloween, 100 years ago, left behind an unfinished book called The Cancer of Superstition. A century on, it’s more relevant than ever
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Joy
One of the first sentences in multi-disciplinary artist Maira Kalman’s latest book, Joy—“Suffering and sorrow envelop our planet…
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Carnival of Souls
Herk Harvey’s only narrative feature film is an atmospheric and macabre indie masterpiece, exploring emotional distance…
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Hotel & Farm
Ben Katchor calls himself a cartoonist, but what I call him is a novelist of heartbreaking brilliance whose graphic novels…
Pièces de Résistance On the heels of the midterms, a new book of photographs by Jean-Pierre Laffont captures two decades of American defiance
Alain Delon’s Dead Ringer In Murder in Paris ‘68, Edward Chisholm investigates the killing of the movie star’s bodyguard in Paris
All the President’s Women Did John F. Kennedy use his womanizing ways and countless extramarital affairs to mask his grave health issues?
Arte Povera’s Female Force A century after Marisa Merz’s birth, three exhibitions in Italy pay homage to the only woman in the radical art movement built on humble materials, non-commercial spaces, and ephemeral installations
