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Dolly Parton’s Guide to the Good Life The indomitable, 11-time Grammy-winning country singer answers 14 of life’s most pressing questions

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The Sweet Life of Tom Carvel How a Greek immigrant with big dreams grew a faulty ice-cream cart into an American franchise behemoth that would serve Flying Saucers and Fudgie the Whales to many generations to come


Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Turns 40 Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck recall the making of a teen classic

The Odd Couple of American Art When Andy Warhol and Jamie Wyeth met in the late 1960s, the king of Pop art and the heir to America’s first family of painting struck up an unlikely friendship that would carry them from Chadds Ford to Monte Carlo

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Eyes Wide Shut In his new book, acclaimed film writer David Thomson traces the history of cinema, from Rear Window to Anora—and reveals his greatest unease with the medium

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Naval Gazing Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jack Nicholson … As Fleet Week returns to New York, a look back at the sailors who have stolen our hearts since the 1930s

Murder, They Wrote Three psychological thrillers show how a life in the arts can get more brutal than a U.F.C. match—especially when a love triangle is involved


The AIR MAIL Summer Reading List From Ann Patchett’s tender tale of reconciliation to Jenny Jackson’s juicy seaside romp, here are the 10 books our editors are taking with them on their travels this summer

When Hokusai Met Hiroshige In Tokyo, an exhibition brings together original works by Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, the 19th-century masters who revolutionized the landscape in Japanese woodblock prints

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Wes Gordon’s Favorite Things The creative director of Carolina Herrera and the man behind the new Mimi bag shares his taste for antique mirrors, Christofle silver, Emporio Sirenuse dinner plates, and a very well-appointed home

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Invisible Woman Daisy Bates was one of the civil-rights era’s most formidable forces. Why is her story not better known?

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