Bruce Handy
Furor over the Führer
Jerry Lewis’s unfinished film, The Day the Clown Cried, was long considered the last word in Holocaust-related bad taste. And then along came Heil Honey I’m Home!, an I Love Lucy–like sitcom about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
Fish Tales
An exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, in Massachusetts, highlights more than 40 delightfully illustrated editions of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Hitting the Books
Three children’s-literature connoisseurs share a selection of their favorite picture books, past and present, for kids of every type
Ye Old Forty Foot
In a small promontory jutting into Dublin Bay sits a freezing-cold, utterly irresistible watering hole where locals swim and socialize
The View from Here
Where the 1960s had love and the 1980s greed, the 2020s are quickly being defined by anger. Forget the Roaring 20s—welcome to the Raging 20s!
Bruce McCall
With his deadpan surrealism, superior wit, and perfect timing, the satirical artist and writer left an indelible mark on everything he touched, from National Lampoon to The New Yorker and Vanity Fair
Into the Wild
A charming new coffee-table book and upcoming exhibition celebrate the stories and illustrations of Maurice Sendak, of Where the Wild Things Are
Piatti for Children
The Swiss designer Celestino Piatti’s children’s books are combined into a single volume for the first time
Tour de Force
Charles Dickens highlighted Americans’ most unappealing habits (bad table manners) and practices (slavery). So why haven’t Republicans gone after him?
Linguine, with a Side of Sinatra
At Patsy’s, a motley crew of Frank Sinatra singers meets once a year for chicken parm and shoptalk
