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Forgetting Sarah Palin

While trying to understand the current Republican Party, most journalists have ignored the woman who foreshadowed Donald Trump

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a comedic cancer memoir from Delia Ephron; chronicles of a man retracing the steps of Alexander the Great; and the tale of an impostor journalist

Paris Snatch

Andrea Ferolla’s Sketchbook

The Man Who Invented Movies

While Thomas Edison is widely known as “the father of motion pictures,” a Frenchman by the name of Louis Le Prince actually got there first—and then disappeared

Enter the Beaux-Arts

A new book highlights the gilded Beaux-Arts architecture of turn-of-the-last-century New York City

Tampa vs. Albany

The startling similarities and eerie differences between Tom Brady and Andrew Cuomo

Noémie Merlant

The French actress is breaking into Hollywood the same way she stormed Paris from the provinces

East Meets West in Venice

Will Prince Andrew Tank the Firm?

He’s desperately clinging to Mummy in public, and that’s not good for Charles and William

A Dirty Business

A whistleblower from the factory of millionaire artist Damien Hirst paints a grim scene of low wages and employees knee-deep in formaldehyde

The First Couple of Pop Art

Fifth Ave. Pied-à-Terror

Correspondence reveals Vladimir Putin’s plan to annex unlisted properties on New York’s Upper East Side

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Citizen Cimino

Hallelujah!

From the National Theatre, London, a triumphant revival of Angels in America

Staff Picks

Don’t miss an investigation into the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting; a new biography of Harry Truman; and a Broadway memoir

Bright Lights, Big City

Books and a Place to Read Them

From the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op, an ode to the quiet magic of independent bookshops around the country

Dancing on Air

In the second season of Bridgerton, dance—specifically, the ceremonious allemande—speaks louder than any professions of love

From Glasgow, with Love and Struggle

Brainspotting

The world-renowned neurologist A. J. Lees is on a mission to humanize doctors

Prized Scores

Here’s to the music that makes films swing, from Philip Glass, Nino Rota, Alexandre Desplat, and others