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In this nostalgic and fascinating book, Julie Satow, author of The Plaza, writes about the golden age of three now-vanished ...

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...

Today's filmmakers pick the best animated movies of the 1960s, including The Jungle Book and Yellow Submarine.

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Veteran Free State cartoonist Mogorosi Motshumi’s biggest fear is that he will die before finishing his life’s work. He has ...

The artist, Nat Tate, was celebrated at a party at Jeff Koons’ New York studio, hosted by David Bowie. But Tate was a fictional character who had been invented by William Boyd to expose the ...