The Last Queen of France
Marie Antoinette’s biographer on her secret plot to stop the Revolution, and what history got wrong about the monarch
They Publish the Perished
Thanks to New York Review Books Classics, masterpieces such as Stoner, Speedboat, and Poison Penmanship are back in print and finding new fans
Deborah Berke
On the books that unite literature and architecture
A Room of Their Own
A 1920s note from Vita to Virginia is an exercise in reassuring a lover
Postcard from the Alps
With fall comes winter planning: a new cookbook features photographs of Europe’s snowy peaks, and food to match
“I Go Nowhere, See No One”
Greta Garbo’s letters, now up for auction, make public a rare glimpse of the star who loved solitude
Dancing in the Air
Chic, the Temptations, Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, the Trammps, the Pointer Sisters again … and more
Once More unto the Breach
In Henry V, Timothée Chalamet tries to fill the sabbatons of Olivier and Branagh
Gold Diggers
Sebastião Salgado’s photographs capture the hope, despair, and human suffering in a Brazilian mine
Downton Abbey: The Five-Minute Version
Condensed, with perhaps one or two liberties taken. Still, the reading time is 118 minutes less than the film’s running time
The Magic Touch
Harry Houdini built an elaborate web of deception in his quest for immortality. Nearly a century after his death, his biographer notes, the myths have corroded but his legend lives on
André Bishop
On the first books he loved
Chronicling Harlem
A new book collects the rare work of Leo Goldstein, the little-known photographer who cast his lens on life in postwar East Harlem
