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Short List

A Higher Power

A new biography offers a look into the diary of Israel’s founder

Jacqueline Woodson

Selects three of this year’s best novels

Long Story Short

Wondering Eye

François Halard’s photography gets inside the homes and studios—and aesthetic experiences—of artists

Smyth on Smith

Lara’s Song

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

Top Shop

The author, whose new book is out this fall, selects his favorite Scottish bookshop

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Inspectors About Town

The Longest Day

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper