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“The Holy Grail of Shipwrecks” A new book charts one man’s decades-long search for the lost Spanish galleon featured in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in a Time of Cholera

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Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a biography of the literary critic who championed Faulkner and Kerouac; a study of “vampire panics”; and a fresh translation of Thucydides’s history of the Peloponnesian War


Annus Horribilis In The Flower Bearers, Rachel Eliza Griffiths reflects on the near-fatal stabbing of her husband, Salman Rushdie

Rodney Everlasting With the magic of Wes Anderson, the imagination of René Magritte, and the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, Rodney Smith’s photographs create a fantastical world untouched by time

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Rodney Everlasting With the magic of Wes Anderson, the imagination of René Magritte, and the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, Rodney Smith’s photographs—collected in a new coffee-table book—create a fantastical world untouched by time

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Annus Horribilis In the span of one year, Rachel Elizabeth Griffith’s husband, Salman Rushdie, was attacked, and her best friend died suddenly. Her new memoir reckons with these dual traumas

Pretty Privilege for Sale GLP-1s are making it possible to rig the genetic lottery. What happens to the people who can’t afford them?


Postmortem of a Marriage In Strangers, Belle Burden excavates the strange and sudden collapse of her marriage on a night in 2020

100 Years of Martha Graham Amidst its centennial tour, the Martha Graham Dance Company channels its legacy of resistance and protest with a new piece from the choreographer Hope Boykin, set to a reimagined Leonard Bernstein score

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Air Supply

The Great Indoors Collection AIR SUPPLY turns staying in into a minor spectacle: pour a cocktail (or cocoa), sink into soft blankets, and savor a weekend of mild competition, puzzles, and carefully curated boredom

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Back from the Dead Jim Marshall’s Grateful Dead photos, capturing the calm and chaos of the 1960s rock ‘n’ roll scene, are collected in a new coffee-table book

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