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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

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

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

White House of Horrors

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

Soprano from the North Country

Change of Pace

Bohemian Rhapsody

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

Short List

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

Suicide Watch

Caroline Flack, the engaging former host of Love Island, is the third person from the show to kill herself. Beneath the Botox and bikinis lie some dark secrets

Wonder Woman

Last Laugh

Old Head, Young Shoulders

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Guide to the Armory Show and Beyond