A Tale of Two Bobs
A new documentary celebrates the Homeric labors of Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb—and ends with a cliff-hanger
Never a Dull Moment
The French photographer Nicolas Rachline’s portraits evoke a colorful life on the move
Going Rogue
Eight questions with Patrick Radden Keefe, best known for his accounts of the Irish Troubles and the Sacklers, whose new book profiles all manner of crooks
Love in the Heavens, Love on Earth
Live from San Francisco, Bright Sheng’s spacey Dream of the Red Chamber
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
Misery Loves Company
Ottessa Moshfegh’s bleak yet funny novels have earned her a cult following. Her new book takes things a step further
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
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
Candid Camera
Lawrence Osborne reveals the inspiration behind his novel The Forgiven, whose screen adaptation premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival next week
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
Will This Be the Perfect Italian Summer?
Mediterranean beaches unspoiled by oligarchs! (Well, almost … )
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
The Clown Prince
Post-Jubilee, Harry reports back to Netflix*
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
Women Beware Women
Gillian Anderson and Lily James chew the scenery in All About Eve
