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Will a Victim’s Father Take Down the Idaho Killer?

On this week’s podcast, Howard Blum reveals how the father of one of the victims is pursuing his own investigation—and uncovering new facts

Homegoing

The Journalist and the Fraudster

Dinner Party From Hell

It’s time for a second look at Thomas Adès’s loopy dance of death The Exterminating Angel

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss an audiobook murder mystery involving cellist prodigies, an intimate history of Manhattan’s Public Theater, and a globe-maker’s exploration of his craft

Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook

Forever on the Wild Side

Searching the Webb

A new book about the jeweler David Webb reveals the inspirations behind the master’s modern designs

Just the Facts

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mysteries feature aging sleuths, from the latest in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series to a new Agatha Christie Poirot book. Plus: the best TV shows to go with them

Shanti Fiennes

The British actress is taking on the role of Princess Diana in a film that imagines post-divorce Di on a carefree road trip through California

Rope-a-Dope

Who is the champion in Washington’s swampy sleaze-and-corruption arena?

Heaven on Wheels

A new book offers a dazzling survey of the most exceptional cars ever designed, from a Corvette Sting Ray to an Aston Martin Valkyrie, to a BMW Isetta micro-car

No Exit

A great female auteur makes a bold humanist statement in Green Border

Is This the Woman Who Could (Should?) Replace Biden?

On this week’s podcast, Peter Osnos discusses why a 52-year-old from Michigan just might have what it takes

A Piece of Paradise

A lost short story handwritten by the acclaimed author Truman Capote is published for the first time

An Elegy Wrapped in a Comedy

A new book chronicles the rise of Bruce Robinson’s Withnail & I from box-office failure to endlessly quotable classic

Funny Is His Business

Noam Dworman, owner of the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, has worked with all the greats—including a few you haven’t heard of yet

Lost and Found

Ahead of his West End role in A Voyage Round My Father, Rupert Everett reflects on losing focus, renouncing Botox, and the value of self-censorship

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss an account of Times Square’s evolution, a memoir from a viral comedian, and the harrowing story of a woman kidnapped by a drug cartel

Behind Enemy Lines

A look at the mysterious story of journalist Ernie Pyle’s death during the U.S. Army’s invasion of a Japanese island

What Is Love?

Whether on Hitler’s evil, Shakespeare’s genius, or the nature of love, Ron Rosenbaum resists the lure of easy answers