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The Fast Lane

Old Head, Young Shoulders

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

Beyond the White Bikini

Ursula Andress, no Hollywood careerist, found fame and has enjoyed a “very lucky” life regardless

Jesse Eisenberg

Recommends four contemporary plays

Horse Sense

A new book offers a playful antidote to uncertain times, from the British illustrator whose past collaborations with Richard Curtis and Nelson Mandela are a testament to the wide-ranging charm of his work

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

Dora Maar’s World

Jamie Lee Curtis

Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions

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

The Stone Age

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

The Robbins Complex

A Night at Karita’s

Night Moves

Rootless Metropolitan

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

Gentlemen Prefer Clubs

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