Lena Dunham Reveals All
In her new memoir, Famesick, the actor-writer-director revisits the awful men (Jack Antonoff, Adam Driver), the difficult women (her business partner, her mother), and the social-media flaying that almost destroyed her
Small Town Girl
Jayne Anne Phillips was a literary wunderkind who counted Sam Shepard and Jim Harrison among her fans. Her latest book revisits her childhood in rural Appalachia
The Secret Life of Kurt Vonnegut
A new coffee-table book reveals the satirist as a visual artist, collecting 150 whimsical doodles that his daughter Nanette, who also writes the introduction, kept private for decades
Big Easy Reading
As New Orleans gears up for Jazz Fest, a tranquil alternative can be found in the city’s flourishing indie book shop scene
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a vibrant history of colors and their definitions, a visual study of artists and their dogs, and a fresh translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a dual portrait of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, a study of Roman emperors through the eyes of everyday citizens, and a look into the collaboration behind Psycho
Roman Heartbreak
To the world, Audrey Hepburn was the image of Hollywood glamour and grace. But my mother’s personal life was a far more tragic tale
Cabin Fever
From the stone façades of East Sussex to the wood shingles of Rhode Island, three new coffee-table books capture the child-like wonder of cottage living
Fool’s Gold
Why my father risked everything for a malfunctioning, multi-million-dollar jeweled egg—only for it to destroy his business, his family, and his life
God is Not Not Great
Christopher Beha, former editor of Harper’s Magazine, talks struggling with atheism, his return to Catholicism, and how Trump is the Antichrist
Helmut Newton’s Hot Takes
A coffee-table book and exhibition re-create a 1999 album of the photographer’s most experimental work, collecting never-before-seen images and their handwritten pencil annotations
When Larry McMurtry Met the Merry Pranksters
The biographer of the pre-eminent Texas chronicler recounts an infamous encounter with Ken Kesey’s gang of LSD enthusiasts, later immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a roadmap to saving America’s public high schools, a cartographer’s analysis of the Dark Ages, and a guide to coping with our most difficult emotions
“Serious Photographs Disguised as Entertainment”
With the arrival of warmer weather, two new coffee-table books revisit the late Martin Parr’s wry pictures—and the environmental warning simmering beneath them
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mysteries: a return of Tana French’s retired cop, Cal Hooper, and a debut thriller about a female detective investigating a strange cold case
The Last Gentleman
My father, George Plimpton, was chivalrous, charming, and always a little out of reach
The Making of Ai Weiwei
A new coffee-table book traces the artist’s humble beginnings in China, the exiles and travel bans he endured, and the radical works he created along the way
Dishing with Ruthie Rogers
In an exclusive excerpt from the River Cafe impresario’s forthcoming book, Wes Anderson, Paul McCartney, Tina Fey, David Beckham, and others talk all things food, from microwave dinners to caviar
