A Room of Their Own
A 1920s note from Vita to Virginia is an exercise in reassuring a lover
Deborah Berke
On the books that unite literature and architecture
Bong Joon-ho
Parasite, the South Korean director’s new film about class warfare, triumphed at Cannes and is generating Oscar heat
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
Postcard from the Alps
With fall comes winter planning: a new cookbook features photographs of Europe’s snowy peaks, and food to match
Dancing in the Air
Chic, the Temptations, Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, the Trammps, the Pointer Sisters again … and more
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
“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
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
André Bishop
On the first books he loved
A Modernist Marie Kondo
The architect and designer Charlotte Perriand went from Le Corbusier disciple to fearless visionary
