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Short List

Smyth on Smith

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

Inspectors About Town

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

Lara’s Song

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Top Shop

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

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

The Longest Day