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A Mission from God

How an epic friendship born out of quaaludes, comedy, and a shared love of R&B paved the way for The Blues Brothers

The Deformative Years

Murder, They Wrote

Revenge—served hot, cold, and everywhere in between—dominates this month’s new mystery books

Death Became Her

Plot Twist

Six years after his blockbuster debut thriller—and a scandal about his credibility—A. J. Finn publishes his much-anticipated follow-up novel

The Beginning of Everything

Polo, parties, and the American Dream … how my grandfather inspired Fitzgerald’s Gatsby

Labor Pains

Rhapsodies in Blue

A House Divided

Hitting the Ceiling

While Michelangelo’s St. Peter’s Basilica is remembered as a Renaissance masterpiece, the drama around the construction nearly stopped the project

Slapstick Apocalypse

Liar’s Poker, London–Style

How I went from the mean streets of East London to becoming the most profitable trader in the world

Sister Act

How the McLaughlin twins broke the glass ceiling of the male-dominated photography industry during the golden age of magazines

All the Queen’s Men

(Mid-)20th-Century Women

Ruth Orkin’s postwar photographs, collected in a new book, offer a snapshot of the modern woman navigating life in the big city

Drumming Up Sympathy

A new biography of rock legend Jim Gordon reveals how the music scene ignored his mental health struggles, then abandoned him when he snapped

The Forgotten Master

Wham, Bam, Thank You Yam

Romantasy Addicts

It’s unadulterated escapism. It’s junk food for the mind. Suddenly, sales of fiction classed as both fantasy and romance are booming

Chronicle of an Invasion Foretold

Guiding Spirit

To write about Carson McCullers, the great American novelist, a biographer briefly lived in her childhood home

A Classic Is Born

Weathering the Storm

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave

Romancing the Twitter Bro

The untold story of the lengths to which Twitter founder Jack Dorsey went to sway his company’s acquisition in Elon Musk’s favor