Misery Loves Company
Ottessa Moshfegh’s bleak yet funny novels have earned her a cult following. Her new book takes things a step further
Talking Contradiction
Notes from the archive of the Jewish Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer show that even he, a renowned pacifist, was torn when it came to Israel and its place in the world
Candid Camera
Lawrence Osborne reveals the inspiration behind his novel The Forgiven, whose screen adaptation premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival next week
Will This Be the Perfect Italian Summer?
Mediterranean beaches unspoiled by oligarchs! (Well, almost … )
The Spy Who Came In from the Boudoir
A new biography of John le Carré reveals a private life rich in shenanigans, including a long-standing mistress
Dante’s Suburbia
Novelist Tom Perrotta, our poet laureate of high-school angst, revisits his best-known character in his latest book, Tracy Flick Can’t Win. Decades have gone by, he says, but Tracy’s small-town torments (and ours) still haven’t changed
Crooked Teeth and Dodgy Leaders
Though it came as a shock to many, Brexit was nothing more than the latest round in an argument as old as the British Isles themselves
The Clown Prince
Post-Jubilee, Harry reports back to Netflix*
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s crime novels take readers around the world, from Boston and Edinburgh to islands in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean
20th-Century Picture Show
A new coffee-table book collects some of the last century’s most enduring photographs, shot by Norman Parkinson, Sebastião Salgado, Weegee, and others
Women Beware Women
Gillian Anderson and Lily James chew the scenery in All About Eve
Creature of the Night
The former director of the 90s’ hottest nightclubs reveals the work behind the parties
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
A retired C.I.A. officer gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case
Paradise Found
Grandi Giardini Italiani, which works to protect and manage Italy’s best gardens, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a heavenly new book
The Shot Heard Round Russia
The little-known story of how Catherine the Great conquered her fear of doctors to inoculate herself and her country against smallpox
