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Last Days of Disco

Lexi Underwood

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

Return of the Puppet Masters

Satire reborn: Spitting Image will be back. Stars, politicians, and royals beware

Murder Is Her Muse

Writer Sarah Phelps is shocking Agatha Christie purists—and re-inventing the genre

Casey Cep

Harper Lee’s biographer recommends the most revolutionary books in the genre

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Coronavirus Warning

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

Nothing to See Here

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

Too Close for Comfort

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

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

The Roaring Writers

The Little Old Lady Who Enjoyed Murdering People

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

Renaissance Underdog

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.

Disney’s Real Wizard

In his 15 years running the company, Bob Iger brought many prizes into the fold: Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel. One of his other brilliant moves was bringing in Alan Horn

Flower Power

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

Give Him a Pen …

Leap of Faith

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

Mark Morris

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

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