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And the Band Played On

Fifty years later, Robbie Robertson talks about “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”

When Hawthorne Met Melville

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

Jenny Slate

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

From Marty Scorsese’s Movies

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

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

Murder, They Wrote

Three new mysteries

Artful Dodger

Once upon a Dream

Maurice Sendak’s
Wild Vision

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

From the Baltics
with Love

Fantasy Jewels

Don’t Pass Him By

The ever cheerful Ringo Starr has a new album—improbably titled What’s My Name—and a lot to say about drumming, photography, and that band …

She Means (Show) Business

How to Write a Business Memoir

The world would be a better place imparted with your vital insights and uncanny corporate acumen. Wouldn’t it?

Halloween Charade

An All Saints’ party with Patti, Billie, Neko, Nico, Emmylou, Bruce, Lucinda, and more—some with full names!

Short List

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The astrophysicist and author on the last books he picked up, and the one he couldn’t finish

Genius Loves Company

The author of the first account of Einstein’s British entanglement unveils the physicist’s unlikely
English-countryside hosts

Going Dutch

Fifty Shades of “Grey”

Power Dressing

The estate of the Queen’s dressmaker will be auctioned at Amersham Auction Rooms, in Buckinghamshire, on October 31

Tokini Peterside

“I have spent most of my career being a bridge between artists and the business world,” says the founder of Art X Lagos

Under the Skin