How to Write like Harlan Coben
The best-selling author shares the tricks he uses to craft a page-turner—from conjuring up villains to landing the big ending
The Push Pin Attitude
How the scrappy, ingenious founders of New York City’s Push Pin Studios revolutionized 20th-century graphic design—and left a lasting mark on the culture
A Boy’s Best Friend …
At Andy Warhol’s suggestion—“she’s so-o-o interesting”—a biographer pulls back the curtain on the artist’s mother, an unsung painter in her own right
Hamlet in Lockdown
How Sir Ian McKellen spent (part of) his pandemic
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a history of George Frideric Handel’s popular Christmas oratorio, an examination of old age in America, and an artist’s collection of stories and paintings
Nina Johnson’s Guide to Miami
The gallerist shares her favorite spots in her home city
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
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?
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?
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 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?
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
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
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
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
Dominique Ansel’s Guide to New York
The French pastry chef shares his favorite specialty food stores in his adopted city
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
