When America Barred Italians

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He Escaped the Nazis and, One Night in New York, Found Marilyn Monroe

Furrier Jules Schulback stood in the crowd and filmed Monroe’s legendary subway-grate scene with his home-movie camera. A first excerpt of the new nonfiction book The American Way.

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My strong, silent dad was actually a sensitive, insecure soul.

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Cynthia Karalla almost fell into the Central Park Lake and was pierced by brambles to create works for a luxury condominium building — the biggest payday she has ever seen.

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A union leader on the Brooklyn docks disappeared 81 years ago, presumably murdered by the mob.

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The improbable tale of how a unique instrument went missing in 1982 and ended up in a pawnshop a few miles from where it was lost.

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What It’s Like to Watch TV Replicate Your Home

Visiting a set that has been designed to look just like your home can be more than a little trippy.

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All it took was a Dylan song to bring back memories of a summer in Alaska.

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