This Town
A new book of photographs chronicles the evolution of New York City’s downtown over a century, from Radio Row to a post-9/11 World Trade Center
Bad Romance
The author of a new book on the Borgias’ infamous personal lives uncovers the facts behind the Italian family’s long-standing myths
Rebel with More than a Clue
Lee Child, the immoderate, rebellious, gazillion-copies-selling author and creator of Jack Reacher, is now … a Booker Prize judge
Eightysomething
Back to the glory days of the Human League, Fine Young Cannibals, Tom Tom Club, Suzanne Vega, Madonna, General Public, and Grace Jones
Something’s Coming
The West Side Story story is a complicated one, and the new Broadway production has a lot of history to reckon with
Face Value
A new book considers the fate of our most human aspects—the mystery of the brain, the expressiveness of the face—in our tech-bent future
Max Hastings
On the best work of Sir Michael Howard, the British historian who dealt high intellect and common sense in equal measure
King of the Left Bank Lit Set
Bernard-Henri Lévy on Trump, the Kurds, and the dress code he sticks to no matter the terrain—or how low his shirt buttons go.
Leslie Jamison
On the books worth obsessing over
The North Korean Job
The author of the first English-language book on Kim Jong Un explains the dotard-trolling dictator’s mysterious rise
America’s Storyteller
A national tour of Black painter Jacob Lawrence’s depictions of the country’s historical turning points lands at the Met
