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A Family Affair

Soul Sisters

As an exhibition on the work of black artists hits San Francisco, the academic reflects on the show’s centerpiece: a portrait of the ex–Black Panther she shares a name with

All the Senator’s Men

Daydreams

A new collection of photographs by the actor and filmmaker, most of which have never before been published, takes you back to the 60s

Lauren Groff

Recommends the jewels among her preferred novels and short stories

The Mikado’s Fresh Start

Act Two

In 1963, Mike Nichols was a 31-year-old former comedian with no immediate prospects. Then he met Neil Simon. A new book recounts what happened next, in the words of the key players

Before Before Sunrise

Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke on how they made their memorable trilogy

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Lacloche’s Bijoux

November in New York

Uncharted Territory

Once upon a Dream

How to Serve Man

In 1921, the Lenin-led Soviet Union faced one of the worst famines in history. A new book details its horrors and the American effort to combat cannibalism

Artful Dodger

Murder, They Wrote

Three new mysteries

Charlotte Gainsbourg Is Alive and Well and Living in New York

After a tragic loss, she abandoned Paris. And now, as she approaches 50, the daughter of Serge and Jane finally feels she is coming into her own identity

The Secret Lives of Patricia Highsmith

Long-hidden diaries reveal the dark obsessions and deep hatreds she drew from to write The Talented Mr. Ripley and other noir masterpieces

Jurassic Jeff

Goldblum defies his age with a new travel series, another jazz album, a young family, and all those films

When Hawthorne Met Melville

Reliving the walk in the Berkshires that changed literary history—and perhaps kindled a great romance

Natasha Stagg

The young author who has her finger on the pulse of the new New York

Piece of Her Heart

Janis Joplin’s biographer reveals the staunch seriousness behind the singer’s free-spirited front

From Marty Scorsese’s Movies

What do Hoagy Carmichael, the Ronettes, Artie Shaw, the Rolling Stones, Dr. John, and Dropkick Murphys have in common?

Jenny Slate

On the sharpest female voices, from the 1940s
to the present