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Da’Vine Joy Randolph

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

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 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

Palette Pleaser

The Waverly Sound

Blonde Ambition

A Modernist Marie Kondo

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

André Bishop

On the first books he loved

Tunnel Vision

Banlieue Boys

The Secret’s Out

In a Flash

Iron Ladies

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook

All Quiet on the Cameron Front

In a new book, the former P.M. has little to show for the Brexit disaster he gave life to

Top Dogs

The comedy show created by Ukraine’s new president skewered Donald Trump

George Stubbs, King of the Beasts

The 18th-century British painter was the “Liverpudlian Leonardo,” revered for his portraits of racehorses and other creatures

Olive Kitteridge Is Back

Cynthia Talmadge

The American artist who takes inspiration from female courtroom villains—and their outfits

Drop That Corn Dog

No platform is better suited for letting candidates bypass the hokey rituals of retail campaigning than the humble, motley podcast

Faces in the Crowd

Mad About the Girl

Judy Garland, Jeff Buckley, Noël Coward, and more

Standing Room Only

Populist Art