Casey Cep
Harper Lee’s biographer recommends the most revolutionary books in the genre
Warning Tracks
This Ides of March, the foreboding will be palpable. Some earlier prophecies from the Beatles, Marvelettes, dB’s, Leonard Cohen, Sly and the Family Stone, and others. Et tu, Ann Peebles?
Murder Is Her Muse
Writer Sarah Phelps is shocking Agatha Christie purists—and re-inventing the genre
Songs That, Well, Cook
The author of See You on Sunday spends time in the kitchen with PJ Harvey, Uncle Tupelo, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, Fela Kuti, and others
Nothing to See Here
The author of a new biography on the Dalai Lama demystifies the leader’s unassuming stoicism
Too Close for Comfort
In HBO’s The Plot Against America, from the Philip Roth novel, the present-day parallels are profoundly disturbing
The Little Old Lady Who Enjoyed Murdering People
After Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the world’s most widely published author
Hand’s Turn
The arabesque’s presence in art ranges from Hellenistic times to Islamic design to the decorative arts, music, and dance.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Photographs of Andy Warhol, Loulou de la Falaise, and Marisa Berenson capture the birth of 60s cool
Local Time
The fate of Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami, chronicled for years by photographer Claudia Andujar, rests largely in the hands of the country’s rash, racist president
Disney’s Real Wizard
In his 15 years running the company, Bob Iger brought many prizes into the fold: Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel. One of his other brilliant moves was bringing in Alan Horn
