The Earl Making the Royals Squirm
Charles Spencer’s new memoir of his sister, Princess Diana, serves up a royal rogues’ gallery—and airs centuries of resentment
From Russia with Likes
As Cold War–style propaganda becomes less effective, the Kremlin is getting its message out the 21st-century way: via online influencers
Paris Won’t Wait
The French way of doing things: the clothes, objects, and small rituals that make Paris feel less like a destination and more like a standard
He Wore Blue Velvet
Kyle MacLachlan’s new memoir, Fictional Selves, is part career retrospective, part autobiography, part love letter to David Lynch, his mentor and most important collaborator
Funny Faces
Mel Brooks, Larry David, Diane Keaton … A new coffee-table book offers an inside look at the comedy world through behind-the-scenes photographs by Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin
Schmuck You
Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel’s new memoir, Roll the Calls, chronicles his relentless empire-building but is conspicuously lacking in self-reflection
Murder, They Wrote
A new Martini Club adventure! The wisecracking Detective Miller returns! This month, our mystery columnist makes the case for the crime-fiction series
To Catch a Murderer
In 1973, Cynthia Bouron, a notorious Hollywood hanger-on who publicly alleged that Cary Grant fathered her child, was brutally killed. Why has the case remained unsolved?