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Nina Johnson’s Guide to Miami

The gallerist shares her favorite spots in her home city

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Payal Kapadia

The first female Indian director to win Cannes’s Grand Prix discusses her childhood in Mumbai and her film All We Imagine as Light

Out for Bloody Babs

Monochrome Mystique

In Lyon, three paintings of Saint Francis by the 17th-century Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán are shown together for the first time, alongside historic and contemporary works

America’s Sweethearts

A new coffee-table book presents a visual history of the United States from the 1940s to today, courtesy of Magnum photographers

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Notes from Underground

Keinemusik’s catchy brand of house music has attracted everyone from bankers to groupies. But is the German D.J. trio anything more than a status symbol?

The Towering Bobby Short

For 36 years there was no more quintessential New York experience than seeing Bobby Short perform at the Café Carlyle

A Turk’s Progress

Giant Girls Don’t Cry

Edna Ferber’s great-niece pulls back the curtain on the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer’s personal life—and the sacrifices she made for her craft

The Decline and Fall of the Campus Novel

Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, and Tom Sharpe used universities as their preferred vehicle for satire. But are modern colleges too ridiculous to parody?

The Diva’s Tragedy

Maria Callas’s life was marked by poverty, drugs, cheating billionaires, and tabloid uproar. Can Angelina Jolie, who plays the opera singer in a new biopic, find the humanity amid the chaos?

Lunch with Isabella Rossellini

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Conclave actress discusses thinness and adjusting her definition of elegance as she gets older

The Highs and Heartbreaks of Living in New York City

On this week’s podcast, we look at Bobby Short at 100 and the end of En Japanese Brasserie

Dominique Ansel’s Guide to New York

The French pastry chef shares his favorite specialty food stores in his adopted city

How Marlon Brando Almost Torpedoed One of His Greatest Roles

On this week’s podcast, Stephen Rebello goes inside On the Waterfront

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Spies Like Us

With Michael Fassbender heading up a starry cast that includes Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright, can The Agency match its peerless French forebear, Le Bureau?

Down and Dirty On the Waterfront

How the classic film, made in the wake of the McCarthy-era Red-hunting trials, pitted director Elia Kazan against star Marlon Brando

The Pages of Sin

The prolific crime-writing legend David Baldacci discusses his feud with Lee Child, his jaundiced view of American justice, and his latest—his 54th!—thriller

We’ll Always Have the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Paul Frank rockets, Hello Kitty planes, SpongeBob Santas … Elizabeth Kahane’s photos of the New York mainstay, taken from her third-floor window over the last 25 years, are collected in a festive coffee-table book

The Ayatollah and the de Kooning

The Argo-like story of the top-secret, high-stakes trade of a priceless illustrated manuscript for a modern masterwork

Light-Bulb Moments