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Working Girls

A former U.S. Army major general brings the untold stories of the women who changed the course of World War II to light

Short List

What to read this week, from a history of British musical theater to an account of the World Trade Center’s rebuilding and an inside look at the deep sea

Rough Riders

The Roads Less Traveled

White Man for the Job

Jeremy Clarkson gets out the Farrow & Ball. Sort of …

The Way of the Jackal

Before Edward Fox made the Jackal a household character, Frederick Forsyth wrote the book. Fifty years on, The Day of the Jackal still thrills

The Mysterious Mr. Guston

The Whitehead Way

Murder, They Wrote

Isaac Benigson

The British artist’s colorful work made it to London’s Royal Academy of Arts before he graduated from high school

Paging Picasso!

A new book traces the painter’s life—Paris, women, wars, and all

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Wonderful Wizard of Dyson

Eight questions with the inventor James Dyson, who has a new memoir, on electric cars and the thinking behind the $399 hair dryer

Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

Opera Pick of the Week

The certain something in this pandemic Don Giovanni from Prague is the unique aura of the theater in which it was filmed

Family Feuds

The story of famed U.K. department store John Lewis rivals that of the Murdoch clan in its similarities with Succession

Inside Afghanistan

At the core of the current Afghanistan disaster is the West’s misunderstanding of a country and its people. These books offer a good place to start

The Art of Subtlety

To attract readers but stump libel lawyers, 20th-century magazine writers alluded to sordid gossip instead of printing it

Lost in Translation

The moment Japan opened its doors to the West, in the late 1800s, was the moment many of its traditions disappeared. A new volume brings them back

The Itch Putin Can’t Scratch

The Bright Side of Life

A swarm of musicals open in London’s West End, proving that both the fun and the show must go on

Great Marketing Minds of 2021

Lest you think the cinema is intellectually bankrupt, Hollywood welcomes you to the Year of the Intense Middle-Aged Bearded White Guy in a Baseball Cap!

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Hello to Arms

Ernest Hemingway: renowned novelist, bullfighting aficionado, and … Spanish guerrilla fighter?