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David Downton’s Sketchbook

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook

Hans Holbein’s Double Life

The Magic Mountain

Don’t neglect your dreams this holiday season. Escape to the Alps with these songs from Beyoncé, Haim, Tems, and more

Murder, They Wrote

Revisionist History

A Word from the Wiseguys

Twenty-two years after The Sopranos premiered, a new oral history revisits the gritty mobster universe the show created

Alexandre Assouline

He grew up watching his parents turn a fledgling publishing company into a coffee-table-book sensation. Now he’s helping to run it

A Wild Adventure Awaits in 2022

Give yourself the gift of good conversation, with Morning Meeting

Ballerinas, with a Twist

Out of the Blue

A century after Gainsborough’s Mona Lisa–esque Blue Boy left the U.K. for California, it’s back on show in London. So who was the boy in blue?

Built to Last

It sputtered at the box office, but 50 years on it’s clear that Two-Lane Blacktop is the great American road movie

Clock Wise

Holiday Tips

A guide to coronavirus-season gratuities

Celluloid City

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

Movie City

Songs from films set in Gotham, from the Ronettes, Harry Nilsson, the Bee Gees, Public Enemy, and more

The History of Mr. Wells

Behind the Couture Curtain

A writer reveals the sketchy details of an incident Coco Chanel went to great lengths to hide

Behind Enemy Lines

A new play revisits the bellicose 1968 Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley Jr. presidential-nominating debates with the benefit of hindsight

The Magic of Jan Morris

Will we ever have another like the Welsh writer extraordinaire who managed to write as beautifully on Che Guevara as she did on the virtues of sneezing?

A Very Larry David Christmas

The man behind Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm breaks down his holiday routine

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

At Christmas, You Tell the Truth

The romantic-comedy king Richard Curtis reveals never-before-heard details about the making of the holiday classic Love Actually