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Lexi Underwood

The 16-year-old Little Fires Everywhere actress isn’t like the other girls

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Coronavirus Warning

Nothing to See Here

The author of a new biography on the Dalai Lama demystifies the leader’s unassuming stoicism

Songs That, Well, Cook

The author of See You on Sunday spends time in the kitchen with PJ Harvey, Uncle Tupelo, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, Fela Kuti, and others

Talk of the Town

He’s Here, He’s There, He’s Everywhere!

The Little Old Lady Who Enjoyed Murdering People

After Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the world’s most widely published author

Too Close for Comfort

In HBO’s The Plot Against America, from the Philip Roth novel, the present-day parallels are profoundly disturbing

Renaissance Underdog

The Roaring Writers

Murder, They Wrote

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Hand’s Turn

The arabesque’s presence in art ranges from Hellenistic times to Islamic design to the decorative arts, music, and dance.

Mark Morris

When one of the most influential choreographers alive today has a minute to himself, he reads

White House of Horrors

A scandal that prefigured today’s appalling Trump escapades. Plus: chasing, and catching, Cosby

Last Laugh

“Kanye West Put the Kardashian Sisters to Open the Dictionary!”

Recent headlines and quotations from international glossies, courtesy of Google Translate

Leap of Faith

Extra! Extra! A February 29 soundtrack from the Velvet Underground, Fiona Apple, the Pretenders, Billie Eilish, Mink DeVille, and more

It Takes One to Know One

The author of a biography of Dave Brubeck on the jazz pianist’s little-known friendship with bebop sensation Charlie Parker

Local Time

The fate of Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami, chronicled for years by photographer Claudia Andujar, rests largely in the hands of the country’s rash, racist president

Old Head, Young Shoulders

Flower Power

Drag diva, fashion model, and budding beauty impresario Violet Chachki specializes in her own brand of feminine mystique

Bohemian Rhapsody

Photographs of Andy Warhol, Loulou de la Falaise, and Marisa Berenson capture the birth of 60s cool