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Studs Terkel Lives On

A new podcast and reissue pay homage to Division Street, a collective portrait of everyday life in 1960s Chicago, and the groundbreaking force behind it

Diff’rent Strokes for Diff’rent Popes

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Sounds Like Heaven

Keyboard superstars Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson make beautiful music together

The Scars of Evil

Hidden Heroines

A rare-book seller traces the influence of little-known female writers on Jane Austen’s beloved novels, from Pride and Prejudice to Emma

Vera Wang’s Guide to New York

The fashion designer shares her favorite spots in the Upper East Side, the neighborhood she calls home

David Downton’s Sketchbook

A Musical Paint Box

For the composer Anna Clyne, putting notes on paper and paint on canvas is part of a single creative process

Save the Date! The Time Draws Nigh!

The Ghost in the Machine

A new play about a fallen tech founder battling his board explores our A.I. anxieties

Portrait of a Lady

A new book collects portraits from the personal collection of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, the supermodel and wife of Irving Penn, with works by Richard Avedon, Man Ray, and George Hoyningen-Huene

Gen Z and the Single Girl

On this week’s podcast, Carolina de Armas and Victoria Herman look at how a new generation sees Bridget Jones

Daniel Blumberg

The Brutalist’s 34-year-old composer created the film’s Oscar-nominated score while crashing on director Brady Corbet’s couch

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough

Michael Jackson’s legacy has been milked by his lawyer for more than a decade—and it continues to be, with a controversial new biopic in the works

Three Hoots for Flaco

Retracing the flight path of the Eurasian eagle owl who escaped the Central Park Zoo and became a viral sensation in New York City

Everyone’s Mad About Leo Woodall

Bridget Jones isn’t alone—Gen X to Gen Z audiences are swooning over Renée Zellweger’s hunky British co-star, who’s rumored to be the next James Bond

Musketeens

The owner of X has his own cadre of bureaucracy busters

Deadly Pleasures to Watch and Read

This month’s best mysteries offer a much-needed distraction from frigid temperatures—not to mention the chaos in the White House

The Last Picture Show

London’s Prince Charles Cinema, an independent movie theater beloved by Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, is under threat of closure

The First Slam Dunk

How the powerful—and at times illegal—basketball shot made its way from the streetball games of New York City and the plains of West Texas to the N.B.A.

Modi Operandi

Joana Vasconcelos’s Guide to Lisbon

The Portuguese artist shares her favorite spots in her home city