The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part I
How the unlikely, tumultuous partnership of Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced the true-crime masterpiece The Executioner’s Song
Read OnRothschild vs. Rothschild The secretive banking dynasty is at each other’s throats over who should own the contents of the “mini Louvre” holding masterpieces by Goya and Rembrandt
Stuck on Stupid Are we getting stupider? The data should be taken with a grain of salt, but the headlines are harder to dismiss
The Worst Years of Their Lives A new book punctures the nostalgia around the World War II generation, shedding light on the trauma and neglect experienced by veterans
Raiders of the Lost Arcade Dick and Jeannette Seaver befriended Samuel Beckett in Paris, marched with Allen Ginsberg in Chicago, and introduced readers to radical books of all stripes
The Sarkozy Redemption Tour The former French president has turned his 20 days in prison—Soggy baguettes! Plastic pillows!—into a 200-page best-selling memoir
Love Child Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid is the centerpiece of a new exhibition in London, marking the first time the 17th-century painting has gone on public view in the U.K.
