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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Fashion is the New Black

This month, exhibitions on Parisian shoe designer Christian Louboutin, Palm Beach fixture Lilly Pulitzer, and more

Dawn Porter

The filmmaker known for exposing racial injustice has a new documentary on John Lewis

Style and Substance

Making Light Work

Elena Ferrante Does Not Take a Summer Holiday

Filming part three of the brilliant friendship between Lila and Elena gets underway in a few months

All That Jazz

A visual history traces the genre from its 19th-century roots in blues-and-ragtime New Orleans to the present day

Jump to It!

As the world slowly comes back to life, shake off the rust with Cerrone, the B-52s, X-Ray Spex, and more

Study in Scarlet

A first look at Joe McCarthy’s just opened archive casts the infamous senator as a precursor to Trump

His First Sunshine

Ross MacDonad’s Sketchbook

Dear Abigail

Death by Committee?

Opera as It Was

A Lighthouse of One’s Own

Old Vic, Fresh Air

Murder, They Wrote

The Way Things Were

A look back at the debauched inner workings of 80s-era Oxford social life

Read and Be Merry

Double Agent

Wide-Open Spaces

Grab your mask and get out of the house with Roxy Music, Sidney Bechet, Garland Jeffreys, the Bangles, and more

Hiding the Truth About Antifa from Your Uncle

He has nothing to fear but fear of a mostly over-exaggerated leftist militant concept itself

Herstory

Wild Nights—Wild Life!

She wanted to make her family proud, and she wanted to be famous: Emily Dickinson’s biographer reveals the poet’s fiery character