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Murder, They Wrote

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Hans Holbein’s Double Life

Revisionist History

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

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook

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

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?

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Word from the Wiseguys

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

Forever Elizabeth

Photographers Douglas Kirkland, Gered Mankowitz, Norman Parkinson, Milton Greene, Terry O’Neill, and Gary Bernstein offer different looks at Hollywood’s brightest star

Clock Wise

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

Celluloid City

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?

Have Yourselves a Larry David Christmas

Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting

Better by Design

Holiday Tips

A guide to coronavirus-season gratuities

Behind the Couture Curtain

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook