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The Fame Game In How to Become Famous, a Harvard Law professor explores what it means to be a celebrity, considering everyone from the Beatles to Jane Austen

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Life and Death My Time of Dying, a new memoir by Sebastian Junger, sees the author come face to face with death and the idea of an afterlife


The Renegade’s Tale In an interview, Margaret Atwood discusses everything from Donald Trump to her newest story, “Cut & Thirst”

O.K., Groomer A reporter’s dispatch from the trenches of the gender-and-sexuality wars in schools across the U.S. portends a perilous future for L.G.B.T.Q. teens

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Station Havens A new book offers a dazzling tour of 20th- and 21st-century railway architecture, from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof to Chengdu’s Line 9

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The Wife That History Forgot A new discovery sheds fresh light on Alice Hathaway Lee, Theodore Roosevelt’s first love, who was largely written off as inconsequential in the president’s life

Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss the story of a family fight over inheritance, a history of the White House Situation Room, and a biography of the great sportswriter Grant Wahl


Murder, They Wrote This month’s best mystery books range from a thriller spelling out the origins of Fascism in England to a literary whodunit reminiscent of The Thursday Murder Club

The Afterlife of the Bauhaus An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism

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Best in Show Let this weekend’s Westminster Dog Show serve as a welcome reminder that our four-legged friends—and most loyal companions, at that—deserve nothing less than the royal treatment. Herewith, tail-wagging treats for pets of all shapes and sizes—and their doting owners too

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My Name Is Barbra’s Index Barbra Streisand’s memoir is 992 pages long with no index in sight. So AIR MAIL made one for her!

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