Jesse Eisenberg
Recommends four contemporary plays
Behind The Crown
The inside story of how the show’s creator, Peter Morgan, mixes facts with dramatic inventiveness
Nouvelle Vague
The French New Wave film posters quickly became as groundbreaking as the 50s and 60s films themselves. A new book highlights the designers behind the movement’s explosive aesthetic
M.I.5’s Storyteller
Eric Roberts’s biographer unearths a short story written by the W.W. II spy
Jamie Lee Curtis
Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions
Out of Office
A new look at Andrew Johnson’s impeachment reveals the buried truth behind the long-forgotten trial, and the eerie parallels to today’s proceedings
Rootless Metropolitan
A foreign correspondent retraces E. B. White’s 1949 love letter to the city he left, Here Is New York
The Stone Age
The artisan who taught the artist the secrets that led to the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Japan
Harry Wootliff
“It’s really refreshing when someone is interested in what’s going on in your brain”—the British TV-and-film director on her road toward making movies
Daydreams
A new collection of photographs by the actor and filmmaker, most of which have never before been published, takes you back to the 60s
Prescription Dubs
Can you tell your pharmaceuticals from your pop stars? Really? A quiz
Bowie’s Top 100
Before he died, David Bowie published a list of books that changed his life. A new volume parses through all 100 titles, including a little-remembered 1842 novel
