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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

A Turk’s Progress

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

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

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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?

The Towering Bobby Short

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

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?

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

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

Malcolm Washington

The Spike Lee protégé and son of Denzel Washington directs an adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Piano Lesson

Light-Bulb Moments

The Exploding Archival Inevitable

Paul Morrissey—overseer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, manager of the Velvet Underground, and cult director—saved everything. AIR MAIL takes an exclusive look

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

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

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?

The Payday of the Jackal

When Frederick Forsyth wrote his groundbreaking thriller, he had no idea how successful—or how enduring—his tale of an assassin would be

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

Tirzah Garwood, Lost and Found

Best known for being the wife of British painter Eric Ravilious, the long-overlooked artist and designer gets her due with a major London retrospective

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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 Rest Is Podcasting

Is there anything that former soccer star, now podcaster and media mogul, Gary Lineker can’t do?