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Origin Story

Tom Wolfe: Master of the Universe of Literary Feuds

On this week’s podcast, the writer’s daughter reveals why no one was better at settling the score

Unusual Suspects

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of Casablanca, which hit theaters 80 years ago

The Beginning of the End

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Putting It Together

How do you complete a Stephen Sondheim musical without Stephen Sondheim? Call for Jonathan Tunick

The New Dresden

More than 75 years after W.W. II reduced 90 percent of the city center to rubble, a sprawling art collection is spearheading Dresden’s rise from the ashes

Where Have You Been All My Life?

In their 80s, Riccardo Muti and Philip Glass have just started making music together

Dealer’s Choice

In Paris, an exhibition of Modigliani’s paintings highlights the Italian artist’s relationship with Paul Guillaume, who represented and sold his work

Andrea Ferolla’s Sketchbook

Lunch with Mindy Kaling

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, Mindy Kaling talks with host Bruce Bozzi about getting sick of partying, the challenges that come with co-writing Legally Blonde 3, and much more …

A Wolfe in Chic Clothing

My father, Tom Wolfe, was a perfect Southern gentleman who always seemed to be butting heads with the literary establishment

Tolkien-esque Elfin Queen

The best-selling children’s author and John Donne biographer Katherine Rundell rivals J. K. Rowling and enjoys the thrill of a flying trapeze

Where Ballet and Fashion Collide

Ahead of the New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala, a new book pays homage to the fabulous collaborations between choreographers and designers including Carolina Herrera, Virgil Abloh, and Anna Sui, with photographs by Pari Dukovic

Thick as Thieves

The Gold, a new British heist series, tells the true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbers, who accidentally re-invented modern crime

Blow, Winds, and Crack Your Cheeks! Rage! Blow!

From Stratford, Ontario, a King Lear of symphonic power

Dress Code

A new history of drag in Britain reveals the little-known mainstream popularity of cross-dressing in British culture, even during the Victorian era

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a history of crime as told through 100 objects, a look at Greta Garbo’s life off-screen, and a vivid sketch of daily life during the Roman Empire’s golden age

Kelly Beeman

The painter and illustrator was convinced art couldn’t be a full-time job. But when Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson came across her drawings on Instagram, overnight success followed

From North Korea with Love

Overheard snippets of conversation between Vladimir Putin and his guest, Kim Jong Un

Watts’s Stacks

The Rolling Stones drummer was a passionate collector of first editions and jazz ephemera

Under the Tuscan (and Umbrian) Sun

A road trip around the homes, archives, and foundations of the artists of central Italy, and those who made their name there, from Beverly Pepper to Alberto Burri to Niki de Saint Phalle

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

The Man in the White Suit Is Back

With his pyrotechnic prose and clinical dissecting of social mores, Tom Wolfe was the pre-eminent chronicler of the United States in the late 20th century. Now, five years after his death, he’s back in the public eye