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Kate Beaton’s “A Murder Mystery”
For the cover of the December 23, 2024, issue, Kate Beaton created an image that doubles as a simple game. (To play, see the word bank below. Print subscribers...
Up from Urkel, World-Famous Nerd
Toward the end of Jaleel White’s new memoir, “Growing Up Urkel,” the actor runs through a list of regrettable life experiences. There’s an agent he wishes he’d never worked...
The Hidden Story of J. P. Morgan’s Librarian
Greene’s nearly decade-long collaboration with Morgan was arguably the most important relationship of her life outside her family, and I think the curators have done a terrific job of...
Three Exceptional Panettones
When it comes to the Italian holiday loaf, there’s magnificence and there’s stultifying disappointment, with little in between. Source link
Have the Democrats Become the Party of the Élites?
Why did Kamala Harris lose the election? So glad you asked. Pull up a chair—actually, no need to sit, because the answer is so simple that it can be...
Hotter and Hotter
Living through the onset of rapid global warming involves learning to roll with the punches. Increasingly, those are quite real and painful—this year saw, again, an accelerating toll of...
The Mordant Observations of a Legendary Muse
In the room devoted to the archives of Lucian Freud in London’s National Portrait Gallery, a strikingly tender painting depicts a young woman with waifish features, blond tresses, and...
Leos Carax’s Self-Portrait Film “It’s Not Me” Is So Him
Fully half of the best films ever—from Charlie Chaplin’s to Claude Lanzmann’s—are replete with cinematic selfies. Yet they are rare over all, perhaps because the camera is an unflinching...
Paul Schrader’s All-Time Favorite Novels
Paul Schrader, whose latest film, “Oh, Canada,” is based on Russell Banks’s semi-autobiographical novel “Foregone,” is no stranger to literary adaptations. In 1985, he co-wrote and directed “Mishima: A...
The Year Creators Took Over
In early October, the No. 5 most popular podcast on Spotify, above the Times’ “The Daily” and just behind “The Joe Rogan Experience,” was a month-old show called “Talk...
