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
Wondering Eye
François Halard’s photography gets inside the homes and studios—and aesthetic experiences—of artists
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
Malcolm Mackay
On the crime fiction that never gets old