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The Decline and Fall of the Campus Novel

Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, and Tom Sharpe used universities as their preferred vehicle for satire. But are modern colleges too ridiculous to parody?

Out for Bloody Babs

Giant Girls Don’t Cry

Edna Ferber’s great-niece pulls back the curtain on the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer’s personal life—and the sacrifices she made for her craft

A Turk’s Progress

America’s Sweethearts

A new coffee-table book presents a visual history of the United States from the 1940s to today, courtesy of Magnum photographers

The Ayatollah and the de Kooning

The Argo-like story of the top-secret, high-stakes trade of a priceless illustrated manuscript for a modern masterwork

Light-Bulb Moments

The Pages of Sin

The prolific crime-writing legend David Baldacci discusses his feud with Lee Child, his jaundiced view of American justice, and his latest—his 54th!—thriller

Don’t Touch That Dial!

We’ll Always Have the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Paul Frank rockets, Hello Kitty planes, SpongeBob Santas … Elizabeth Kahane’s photos of the New York mainstay, taken from her third-floor window over the last 25 years, are collected in a festive coffee-table book

Down and Dirty On the Waterfront

How the classic film, made in the wake of the McCarthy-era Red-hunting trials, pitted director Elia Kazan against star Marlon Brando

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss an homage to New Yorker cartoonists, a biography of the brash newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, and a heartwarming novel set in a small Irish town

High Noonan

The Pulitzer Prize–winning political columnist Peggy Noonan discusses her note from Trump, the surprising reason why he is not a Neanderthal, and writing in Edmund Burke for president

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch

Distract yourself from real-life nightmares with this month’s best mystery book and TV series

The Dorothy Parker Tapes

A biographer of the great 20th-century wit goes in search of 12 hours’ worth of lost recordings made by Gloria Vanderbilt’s husband Wyatt Cooper

The Logistics of Terror

Alive and Kicking

Teenage Wasteland

A new book of photographs by Beth Garrabrant—the artist behind Taylor Swift’s recent album covers—documents youth in the American suburbs

The Never-Ending Allure of Heeeeathcliff!

For decades, directors have struggled to adapt Emily Brontë’s brooding magnum opus, Wuthering Heights. Saltburn’s Emerald Fennell is the latest to try her hand

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss the tale of Genghis Khan’s grandson, an examination of Queen Victoria’s relationships with her prime ministers, and a biography of the Brothers Grimm

The Twisted Aristocrat

Sodom and Camorra

It Takes Two

On what would have been Robert Frank’s 100th birthday, a window into his friendship with fellow photographer—and protégé—Edward Keating

Weird Barbie Writes a Book

Saturday Night Live alumna Kate McKinnon is the latest actor to try her hand at writing a children’s book. Not surprisingly, it’s great!