New This Week
Richard Preston reviews Numbers Don’t Lie, Vaclav Smil’s latest, which uses data to understand our world, and James McConnachie reviews Ed Caesar’s account of an unlikely ascent of Everest
All That Glitters …
With the coronavirus decimating book sales, Shakespeare and Company is launching a membership scheme inspired by the one that got the Paris shop through the Great Depression
Old-School
Cultural and racist stereotypes aside, films like Dangerous Minds suffer from a deeper flaw. Two professors turn to its predecessor, The Corn Is Green, for clues
Lockdown with Larry David
Cazzie David talks about her hilarious new book. Plus: Mark Ellwood on diva drama at Moda Operandi
The Flames of Corruption
A Romanian documentary might be the most explosive film of the year. And an Oscar front-runner
Life’s a Gas
Step back from this mad month and see things at a remove with music from Annie Lennox, Amen Dunes, Rose Royce, the Moody Blues, and more
Locked Out. But Perhaps LinkedIn
Imagining how Ivanka, Eric, and Stephen Miller market themselves, post–White House
Daddy Day Care
If you have no concern for your personal safety and like the idea of your house looking like a shrink’s office, the author has the perfect roommate for you
Dwight Garner
The New York Times book critic is out with a collection of his favorite quotations. Here, three recommendations to whet our appetite
Better by Design
Nearly 50 years after the publication of Louis Kahn’s monograph, a new edition presents the singular work of the architect in a fresh light
Life After Boris
Marina Wheeler on her new book, her broken marriage to Boris Johnson, and raising children who won’t speak to their father
New This Week
Melanie Reid reviews playboy photographer David Bailey’s rollicking memoir, and new light is shed on the French Resistance in Patrick Marnham’s War in the Shadows, reviewed by Roger Boyes
Not Harry Potter, But It’ll Do
Available online for free, The Ickabog, accompanied by whimsical illustrations from children around the world, brings joy to lockdown
A World Apart
Never-before-published photographs by Steve McCurry bring faraway places and cultures into radiant focus
Léna in Paris
With the publication of a self-help book that is outselling classics, millennial influencer Léna Mahfouf casts herself as a French girl next door
Walter Isaacson on Taking the Cure
Plus, Christopher Buckley on Trump’s parting words and part two of our conversation with David Sedaris
Two Lovers
Sylvia Plath’s biographer uncovers the poems her husband, Ted Hughes, wrote for her after her tragic death
