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Before January 6, There Was Seven Days in May

J.F.K. was haunted by the book that outlined how a right-wing coup could happen in America. The movie still rivets audiences

Unforgotten

Since 2006, the site Neglected Books has championed wrongly overlooked novels. Now it’s republishing them

The Pig League

Milton Avery, Re-Discovered

Her Sixth Tony

The riveting Audra McDonald channels Billie Holiday in decline

Flash Back

Three decades on, Harry Flashman, the philandering protagonist of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman series, is still sympathetic

Growing Pains

Agente Provocatrice

Murder, They Wrote

Killers, poseurs, and arrivistes … criminals with social ambition and a taste for vengeance dominate this month’s new mystery novels

The Hard-Crusted Softy in Winter, Part II

Ten years after Gore Vidal’s death, the one biographer to remain friendly with the prickly master reveals poignant details of his final years

Big Tobacco, but for Big Fish

Investigating the dark underbelly of salmon farming, journalists find echoes of the oil and tobacco industries

A Master Trickster, Re-Discovered

Remy Charlip created fanciful books for children—as well as everything from theater design to choreography (including the “Air Mail Dances”!)

A Poet’s Painter

Schools of Thought

Children’s literature has been hit hard by the culture wars. Anthony Horowitz suggests giving in less—and listening to Ricky Gervais more

Portrait Mode

Iké Udé’s carefully staged portraits set contemporary subjects in a world inspired by the drama of Dutch old masters

Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

The Arrangement

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Other Other Paris

Still trying to book a summer getaway? Here’s a city you need to discover

What a Glorious Feeling!

Seventy years after Singin’ in the Rain splashed its way through theaters, it remains perhaps the greatest movie musical ever made

Finnish Firecracker

Live from Helsinki: Karita Mattila, diva without borders

Game of Thrones

The Original Playboy

La Vie en Azur

A new book celebrates the sun-soaked and star-studded legacy of the French Riviera