Tirzah Garwood, Lost and Found
Best known for being the wife of British painter Eric Ravilious, the long-overlooked artist and designer gets her due with a major London retrospective
The Exploding Archival Inevitable
Paul Morrissey—overseer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, manager of the Velvet Underground, and cult director—saved everything. AIR MAIL takes an exclusive look
How Marlon Brando Almost Torpedoed One of His Greatest Roles
On this week’s podcast, Stephen Rebello goes inside On the Waterfront
The Payday of the Jackal
When Frederick Forsyth wrote his groundbreaking thriller, he had no idea how successful—or how enduring—his tale of an assassin would be
Spies Like Us
With Michael Fassbender heading up a starry cast that includes Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright, can The Agency match its peerless French forebear, Le Bureau?
The Ayatollah and the de Kooning
The Argo-like story of the top-secret, high-stakes trade of a priceless illustrated manuscript for a modern masterwork
Malcolm Washington
The Spike Lee protégé and son of Denzel Washington directs an adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Piano Lesson
We’ll Always Have the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Paul Frank rockets, Hello Kitty planes, SpongeBob Santas … Elizabeth Kahane’s photos of the New York mainstay, taken from her third-floor window over the last 25 years, are collected in a festive coffee-table book
The Pages of Sin
The prolific crime-writing legend David Baldacci discusses his feud with Lee Child, his jaundiced view of American justice, and his latest—his 54th!—thriller
The Rest Is Podcasting
Is there anything that former soccer star, now podcaster and media mogul, Gary Lineker can’t do?
Down and Dirty On the Waterfront
How the classic film, made in the wake of the McCarthy-era Red-hunting trials, pitted director Elia Kazan against star Marlon Brando
Flameout
At the Paris Opera, a Handmaid’s Tale makeover for Spontini’s Napoleonic La Vestale
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss an homage to New Yorker cartoonists, a biography of the brash newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, and a heartwarming novel set in a small Irish town
Alicja Kwade’s Guide to Berlin
The Polish artist shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Inside the Mysterious Murder of Sean Combs’s Father
On this week’s podcast, Legs McNeil details how the death of the rapper’s father may have influenced him
Paradise Found
Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania’s celebrated arboretum and a pioneer public garden, unveils its new, 17-acre expansion
Mekki Leeper
The Emmy-nominated Jury Duty and Sex Lives of College Girls actor stars in the new mockumentary sitcom St. Denis Medical
Lunch with Amy Sedaris
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the comedian and Mandalorian actress comes clean about her tanorexia, the Girl Scout badges she didn’t get, and her obsession with high heels
The Mysteries Continue
The gift that even Scrooge can’t resist? A subscription to the best spy novels of all time, curated by the London bookseller Heywood Hill
Let Them Drink Vodka
The statewide water shortage is driving New Yorkers to desperate measures
