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Morten Morland’s Sketchbook

The 96-Year Itch

At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due

The Best and Worst of Times

Wild Westerners

Donald Trump, Party Crasher

Dana Brown was plucked from his bartending post to work at Vanity Fair in its golden era. One of his jobs was manning the door at dinner parties—and keeping the uninvited out

Head for Figures

One Journalist Who Actually Stood Up to Trump

The truth about what happened the night The Donald got turned away from a Vanity Fair party

All About Andy

The former editor of Warhol’s Interview magazine on what Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series, The Andy Warhol Diaries, gets right and wrong

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

Brick and Mortar

Get off Zoom and into the office, with these songs—by the Isley Brothers, Willie Hutch, the Talking Heads, and more—as your soundtrack

Oligarch Helpline

Yachts being scuttled, accounts being frozen, sniggers at Sexy Fish. Russian autocrats are people, too. And right now, they need assistance

Jayme Lawson

Since graduating from Juilliard, the young actress has gone from an Off Broadway performance to The Batman. Next up: a young Michelle Obama

An Evening with Aristotle Onassis

A new one-man play recounts the turbulent life—from telephone operator to the world’s richest man—of the Greek shipping magnate, Jackie O and all …

Roll Over, Walt Disney!

Beethoven’s animated Creatures of Prometheus from the Philharmonia makes Fantasia look like, well, Fantasia

Keeping Mum

Maria Montessori is best known for her pioneering educational theory. Here, a look at her little-known, long-secret role as a mother

State of the Arts

Notes from the Inside

Isabel May

Ahead of Sunday’s 1883 finale, the Hollywood starlet looks onward

Medieval Chivalry for the Modern World

Director Joe Wright’s new anti-musical musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac has shades of his own off-screen love triangle

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Brangelina for Gen Z?

Yup, Tom Holland and Zendaya have more than 189 million Instagram followers, and their films made upward of $2.4 billion last year

The Year That Changed Everything

The turn of the century saw a “stop the steal” election followed by a devastating terrorist attack. America was never the same

Kindred Spirits