Jurassic Jeff
Goldblum defies his age with a new travel series, another jazz album, a young family, and all those films
People-Mapping
A new book offers fascinating stats—from Viking raids to the countries living sans McDonald’s—through the lens of the world map
The Secret Lives of Patricia Highsmith
Long-hidden diaries reveal the dark obsessions and deep hatreds she drew from to write The Talented Mr. Ripley and other noir masterpieces
Charlotte Gainsbourg Is Alive and Well and Living in New York
After a tragic loss, she abandoned Paris. And now, as she approaches 50, the daughter of Serge and Jane finally feels she is coming into her own identity
Murder, They Wrote
Three new mysteries
Jenny Slate
On the sharpest female voices, from the 1940s
to the present
From Marty Scorsese’s Movies
What do Hoagy Carmichael, the Ronettes, Artie Shaw, the Rolling Stones, Dr. John, and Dropkick Murphys have in common?
How to Serve Man
In 1921, the Lenin-led Soviet Union faced one of the worst famines in history. A new book details its horrors and the American effort to combat cannibalism
Piece of Her Heart
Janis Joplin’s biographer reveals the staunch seriousness behind the singer’s free-spirited front
When Hawthorne Met Melville
Reliving the walk in the Berkshires that changed literary history—and perhaps kindled a great romance
And the Band Played On
Fifty years later, Robbie Robertson talks about “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
How to Write a Business Memoir
The world would be a better place imparted with your vital insights and uncanny corporate acumen. Wouldn’t it?
Tokini Peterside
“I have spent most of my career being a bridge between artists and the business world,” says the founder of Art X Lagos
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The astrophysicist and author on the last books he picked up, and the one he couldn’t finish
Power Dressing
The estate of the Queen’s dressmaker will be auctioned at Amersham Auction Rooms, in Buckinghamshire, on October 31
