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All You Need Is George Martin The genteel record producer did not look the part of a revolutionary. But as a commemorative new book makes clear, his wildly innovative work with the Beatles changed pop music forever

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Mother Knows Best Seven Sisters tells the story of how Empress Maria Theresia secured the Habsburg dynasty through the marriages of her seven daughters—including Marie Antoinette


The Missing Miracle Worker In 1950, Joe Gaetjens helped the U.S. pull off the greatest upset in World Cup history. Fourteen years later, a Haitian death squad came for him

The Return of the Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes Back for a second year, the prizes honor new fiction and reportage that dares to make sense of our confusing times

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Rebecca Ressler, Up Close The owner of Hollywood Books has turned her small, finely curated bookstore into a Los Angeles literary hot spot, drawing guests such as Kaia Gerber and Petra Collins

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If Ayatollah Once… Stolen Revolution tells the story of post-revolutionary Iran through the individuals who fought back against the repressive theocracy—often at great personal cost

WAGs Just Want to Have Fun Victoria Beckham, Shakira, Georgina Rodríguez … In time for the World Cup, a look at the wives and girlfriends of soccer players who have long stolen the spotlight from the beautiful game


The Tweet Escape San Francisco gave away $70 million in tax revenue to lure the nascent social-media company to its bleakest neighborhood. Was it worth it?

Barbara Hepworth’s True Colors An exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, in London, reveals how the British modernist brought color into her abstract sculptures and geometric drawings

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For the Love of the Game A collection for the ancestrally approximate, the internationally affiliated via romance, and anyone who has ever learned a chant phonetically and committed to it completely

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The Wreck of the Bayesian To celebrate the end of a 12-year legal ordeal, billionaire Mike Lynch set sail on his “unsinkable” 184-foot yacht. The Fates weren’t with him

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