Every Thursday, we’ll send you our recommendations of the best books to read for the weekend ahead. Featuring fiction and non-fiction recs, reviews by our best writers, and unmissable author interviews, this is the essential newsletter for every type of reader.
Thursday Book Report Newsletter
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Jamie Lee Curtis
Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions
Cinema Inferno
Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, and Anita Ekberg all feature in a newly translated memoir of Italian cinema that’s oozing with sex, sleaze, and scandal
To Catch a Manuscript Thief
The shocking leak of Pope Francis’s closely guarded autobiography bears uncanny similarities to an infamous publishing swindler’s modus operandi
Bowie’s Top 100
Before he died, David Bowie published a list of books that changed his life. A new volume parses through all 100 titles, including a little-remembered 1842 novel
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Advance
Publishers are handing out six-figure book deals to young, debut authors. How long can the bubble last if nearly all of them are losing money?
True Confessions?
Did Joan Didion’s husband have the hots for Eve Babitz—or was he moving in another direction?
Of Course It Kills Them
The secret inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s greatest novel
