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Thursday Book Report Newsletter

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.

Our Most Recent Top Stories

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?

Heart of Darkness

It was only after Robert Maxwell’s death that the world realized how far his criminality extended. Yet the riddle surrounding his final moments endures

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

Devil’s Bargain

A 2004 visit with the future Nobel laureate Alice Munro left me with a slightly uneasy feeling. Now I know why

Oedipus Complex

Inside the mind of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the Upper East Side golden boy who killed his own father

Jackie’s Russian Collusion

A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev was among the last she’d send from the White House

Victimhood Goes Mad

The tribulations of the brainy and beautiful. Tiny violins, please!

Jamie Lee Curtis

Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions