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Dream Come True

An excerpt from a new book reveals how Disneyland came to be

Murder, They Wrote

Three new mysteries

On the Road with Hitchens
and Saint Augustine

Where the Wild Things Were

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook

Change of Scene

Romancing the Stones

M.I.5’s Storyteller

Eric Roberts’s biographer unearths a short story written by the W.W. II spy

Rootless Metropolitan

A foreign correspondent retraces E. B. White’s 1949 love letter to the city he left, Here Is New York

The Robbins Complex

A Night at Karita’s

Jamie Lee Curtis

Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions

The Stone Age

The artisan who taught the artist the secrets that led to the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Japan

Out of Office

A new look at Andrew Johnson’s impeachment reveals the buried truth behind the long-forgotten trial, and the eerie parallels to today’s proceedings

Harry Wootliff

“It’s really refreshing when someone is interested in what’s going on in your brain”—the British TV-and-film director on her road toward making movies

Nouvelle Vague

The French New Wave film posters quickly became as groundbreaking as the 50s and 60s films themselves. A new book highlights the designers behind the movement’s explosive aesthetic

The Spy Who Loved Britain

Gentlemen Prefer Clubs

Dora Maar’s World

Night Moves

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

Boccioni Ex Machina

Sum of the Parts

Tracks from albums you should hear lots more of, courtesy of Bowie, Coltrane, Dylan, Prince, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, the Stranglers, and others

The Mikado’s Fresh Start