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Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

The Polish Canon

The Id of HBO

Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”

Hitler’s Blue Period

The Nazis stole Franz Marc’s masterpiece of German Expressionism, setting off an eight-decade search to find it

Sapphistry

Something’s wrong with the
depiction of the love affair
in Vita & Virginia

The Unpublished Verse
of Donald Trump

“I think that I shall never see,
a poem lovely as a wall … ”

Randall Poster’s Bumper-to-Bumper Blues Playlist

Lily Allen, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Traffic
(naturally), Sly & Robbie, and More

A Portrait of the Surrealists

Jared Harris

Shares the standouts on his bookshelf

Summertime Hues

In the Money

Point to Point

When in Rome

Red, Black, and Blue

Dichterliebe in Play

Indian Summer Time

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Randall Poster’s Deep-Summer Playlist:

Ella Fitzgerald, Vampire Weekend, the Meters, and More …

Notes on Sontag

The late American writer loved to keep lists. Her biographer traces the backward arc from her viral “Camp” essay to the notes that preceded it

Still Processing

Beauvoir Revisited

A new book offers a second take on The Second Sex

The (Oval) Office

Gurinder Chadha

On the memoirs that altered her worldview

Lethal Attraction