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Last Laugh

Old Head, Young Shoulders

Wonder Woman

Mark Morris

When one of the most influential choreographers alive today has a minute to himself, he reads

It Takes One to Know One

The author of a biography of Dave Brubeck on the jazz pianist’s little-known friendship with bebop sensation Charlie Parker

Bohemian Rhapsody

Photographs of Andy Warhol, Loulou de la Falaise, and Marisa Berenson capture the birth of 60s cool

Alexandra Fuller

The African-born writer recommends books that depict the complex brutality of colonialism

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Enemies’ Enemies

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Churchill

The Leaning Towers of Deutsche

The author of a new book exposes the widespread, historic corruption fueling the German bank’s downfall

To the Extreme

Murder, They Wrote

Cloudy with a Chance of Doom

Pozzi Scheme

Bob Balaban

“I pretend for a living. But in real life, I’m a reality junkie”: the actor recommends his favorite nonfiction books

Flipping the Hitchcock Script

The author of a new book on Joan Harrison re-writes the filmmaker’s prolific history to highlight the woman driving his success

License to Burn

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Soviet Syndrome

You Can Take Galileo Out of Rome …

The author of a new history of the astronomical revolution explores the radical scientist’s conservative side

One Crept over the Falcon’s Nest

Coco d’Azur