There’s Something About Serena What is it about Serena Williams that brings the world’s best tennis players to their knees?
The Good, the Bach, and the Ugly Playwright Nina Raine unpicks the difficult personality of the 18th-century composer
Bret Easton Ellis’s Rules of Attraction The shock jock of American letters is back with a serialized audiobook that eschews the culture wars for something closer to home
July 14, 2021
Short List Books to read this week, including a memoir from Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris; an inside look at the Secret Service; the true story of a Montauk shipwreck; and a colorful history of spas
July 14, 2021
Love at First Letter Inside the bizarre world of dating, sex, and marriage in America’s prisons
July 14, 2021
Building Castles in the Air Photographs highlight the revolutionary work of today’s leading women architects
Digital Liberation The Internet can be a dangerous place for women. But it has also powered a revolutionary global movement for women’s rights
Match Made in Hell, Part II What would you do if the man you were sleeping with turned out to be a psychopath on the U.K.’s most-wanted list?
Did a Doomed Love Inspire the Eiffel Tower? It’s a symbol of romance, but the designer was motivated by other emotions
Jamie Lee Curtis’s Notes on (Summer) Camp She’s got a new Audible series … and thoughts on what is scary
The Wave of the Future Is Female Tracing the male-dominated history of surfing to its women-wave-rider roots
Graham Norton Has a New Story The comedian and talk-show host discusses his new novel—and whom he wants to interview next
