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Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

Lara’s Song

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

Fool’s Gold

Tangier Style

A new book, out in September, features photographs of the Moroccan coastal city’s picturesque homes and gardens

All Modern Women Are Jealous

News from the Front

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

Jared Harris

Shares the standouts on his bookshelf

In the Money

Point to Point

A Portrait of the Surrealists

The Polish Canon

Lethal Attraction

Notes on Sontag

The late American writer loved to keep lists. Her biographer traces the backward arc from her viral “Camp” essay to the notes that preceded it

Gurinder Chadha

On the memoirs that altered her worldview

Murder, They Wrote

Woman of the West

Victoria’s Angel

Beauvoir Revisited

A new book offers a second take on The Second Sex

Brunello Cucinelli

Selects three books that ask the big questions