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Deborah Berke

On the books that unite literature and architecture

A Room of Their Own

A 1920s note from Vita to Virginia is an exercise in reassuring a lover

Postcard from the Alps

With fall comes winter planning: a new cookbook features photographs of Europe’s snowy peaks, and food to match

Soho on Camera

Dancing in the Air

Chic, the Temptations, Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, the Trammps, the Pointer Sisters again … and more

“I Go Nowhere, See No One”

Greta Garbo’s letters, now up for auction, make public a rare glimpse of the star who loved solitude

Once More unto the Breach

In Henry V, Timothée Chalamet tries to fill the sabbatons of Olivier and Branagh

Downton Abbey: The Five-Minute Version

Condensed, with perhaps one or two liberties taken. Still, the reading time is 118 minutes less than the film’s running time

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Guide to FIAC and Beyond

Blonde Ambition

Banlieue Boys

The Magic Touch

Harry Houdini built an elaborate web of deception in his quest for immortality. Nearly a century after his death, his biographer notes, the myths have corroded but his legend lives on

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

She goes toe to toe with Eddie Murphy in his new comedy, Dolemite Is My Name

The Waverly Sound

André Bishop

On the first books he loved

Tunnel Vision

Palette Pleaser

A Modernist Marie Kondo

The architect and designer Charlotte Perriand went from Le Corbusier disciple to fearless visionary

Chronicling Harlem

A new book collects the rare work of Leo Goldstein, the little-known photographer who cast his lens on life in postwar East Harlem

The Secret’s Out

Iron Ladies

In a Flash

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook