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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Dominique Ansel’s Guide to New York

The French pastry chef shares his favorite specialty food stores in his adopted city

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

The Rest Is Podcasting

Is there anything that former soccer star, now podcaster and media mogul, Gary Lineker can’t do?

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

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

Don’t Touch That Dial!

Light-Bulb Moments

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

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

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?

How Marlon Brando Almost Torpedoed One of His Greatest Roles

On this week’s podcast, Stephen Rebello goes inside On the Waterfront

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

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

The High Priestess of Grind House

Stephanie Rothman was a rare female director in 1970s Hollywood. What kept her from following in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese?

Paradise Found

Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania’s celebrated arboretum and a pioneer public garden, unveils its new, 17-acre expansion

Paul Davis’s Sketchbook

Mekki Leeper

The Emmy-nominated Jury Duty and Sex Lives of College Girls actor stars in the new mockumentary sitcom St. Denis Medical