From The Glass Castle to Prohibition Jeannette Walls looks back at her tumultuous upbringing and her days as a gossip columnist in New York, and discusses her latest book, a novel set in the 1920s
Dial “Midwife” for Murder The little-known story of a 1920s midwife who supplied women with arsenic to kill their abusive husbands
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No. 193
The View from Here
PLUS
America’s Nightmare
The Royal Me
Sofa No Good
and more!
The Princess Bride In the book Elizabeth & Philip, author Tessa Dunlop traces the relationship of the late Queen and her husband beginning with the year they met
The Prophet Motive On the 30th anniversary of the Waco siege, two new books—Koresh by Stephan Talty and Waco Rising by Kevin Cook—revisit the tragedy
Mona Simpson’s Guide to Writing In an interview, the novelist discusses her new book, her early days working at The Paris Review, and finding inspiration
Fine-Tuning In an interview, the pianist Víkingur Ólafsson discusses his affinity for Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto, which he’s playing around Europe
