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New York’s Got Game

Walk south on Sixth Avenue toward West Third Street at any time of the day or night and you’ll be hard-pressed not to see a basketball game in play. It’s a perpetual motion—has been for decades—throughout the city

Caroline de Maigret

De Beauvoir, Didion, Ernaux: the French style star on the essential women writers

Long and Winding Road

Sex (Time) Machine

A new history of sex reveals tales of Clarice Clatterbollocks, testicle thefts, and women keeping live fish in their knickers

Women of the Resistance

L.A. Confidential

When it comes to Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s, Andee Nathanson was to photography what Eve Babitz was to literature, recording the exploding scene from within. A new book of her photographs illustrates that golden age

Claire Tomalin

Recommends four books spanning three centuries

On Topics

The millennial novelist Miranda Popkey has more to say about #MeToo than you can fit in a hashtag

Forget It, Jake—It’s Hollywood