Let’s Do the Time Warp Again!
With Halloween around the corner, music photographer Mick Rock’s behind-the-scenes images from the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show offer a rare glimpse into the making of Richard O’Brien’s campy cult classic
Sam Shepard and the Blue Star Kachina
Inside the making of Operation Sidewinder, the playwright’s first and only drama to premiere on Broadway
Virginia Giuffre’s Last Words
An explosive account of alleged abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew is seeing the light of day six months after Giuffre’s suicide
The Making of Bruce Lee
A new book traces the actor’s journey from Hong Kong to Hollywood—and reveals how his career redefined Asian representation on-screen
The Man Behind the Monster
The little-known story of the Harvard professor whose sadistic experiments may have helped transform Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber
Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch
Heroes and victims on the autism spectrum add a layer of complexity and cleverness to this month’s best mystery books and TV shows
The Beatnik and the Mobster
How did an unpublished story by Jack Kerouac end up in the possession of Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano?
Surreal Estate
A new coffee-table book chronicles the revival of Château Léoube, a 14th-century Provence estate transformed over the last decade by British billionaire Anthony Bamford and his wife, Daylesford Organic founder Carole Bamford
Green Gold
A new book traces the history of the avocado, from a humble dooryard tree in Mexico to a global superfood phenomenon
Harmonia Rosales
Known for re-creating Renaissance paintings with Black characters, the artist is now making her authorial debut to preserve African myths for future generations
Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and John Candy
A new biography pulls back the curtain on the Canadian comedian who died at just 43—and the role he turned down in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction
Too Big to Fail’s Prequel, of Sorts
Andrew Ross Sorkin pieced together forgotten diaries and letters to reveal the Shakespearean characters behind the 1929 financial crash—and how they set the stage for Jamie Dimon and Elon Musk
Mad About the Girl
A new coffee-table book collects the photographer Sam Shaw’s never-before-seen pictures of his longtime friend and muse, Marilyn Monroe
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss the adventures of the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, a memoir from the restaurateur behind Nobu, and a crime novel set in a gritty Rust Belt town
All Eyes on Yves
Richard Avedon, Paolo Roversi, Irving Penn … A new coffee-table book traces Yves Saint Laurent’s life and work through the lenses of the 20th century’s greatest photographers
Announcing the Winners of the Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes
The recipients of the inaugural awards are Vincenzo Latronico, for fiction, and Meghan Daum, for reportage
Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeeze Me
Ruthie Rogers, of London’s storied River Cafe, has teamed up with Pop artist Ed Ruscha for a book of simple recipes devoted entirely to the yellow citrus
If Gertrude Stein’s Art Could Talk
A new biography pulls back the curtain on the famed Paris patron of everyone from Picasso to Matisse, Hemingway to Fitzgerald
