Murder, They Wrote This summer’s best mystery books feature heroines of Homeric proportions, from a female police chief who resuscitates a tragic cold case to a union leader turned drug queenpin
Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss the story of how debris from 9/11 was repurposed, a jaunty history of punctuation, and a look into the making of Paul Simon’s Graceland album
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Why Two Major Jewelry Houses Are Feuding Over Zendaya’s Spider Brooch
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Marion Fasel
The Director and the Madman Born one year apart, Roman Polanski and Charles Manson lived eerily parallel lives for years before finally intersecting at the brutal murder of Sharon Tate
Free-Falling In Richard Russo’s new thriller, Under the Falls, a Nashville singer returns to his hometown to make amends—but the mistakes of his past soon resurface, with fatal repercussions for the present
J.F.K.’s Final Failure Jack Cheevers’s new book argues that J.F.K.’s decision to support the South Vietnam coup in 1963 set up the worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th century
America’s Sweetheart From Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi to Andy Warhol, Titanic to Ghostbusters II, an exhibition in Fort Worth, Texas, explores the history and legacy of the Statue of Liberty
