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Ghost of Dickens Past

Under the Radar

Back to the Future

Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s book Future Shock, published a half-century ago, got a lot right about our current times

In Search of Lost Pianos

A journey to Siberia reveals the life of a 19th-century Russian princess who, in extreme isolation, found solace in music

The Anti-Intellectual

Fake It till You Invade It

The Vegas of the South

Jennifer Weiner

The author of In Her Shoes recommends the best books for the exercise-curious

A Tale of Two Heroes

No New Facts

A Tonic for the Times

Hollywood’s Bomb

On the Dodge

Retracing the life of Butch Cassidy, the American West’s answer to Robin Hood

In Cold Blood: A Why-Dunnit

A closer reading reveals a theory about Truman Capote’s attraction to the story—and the killers

Big in Japan

Murder, They Wrote

Master of Disguise

Roth Unbound

“He could love and hate and rage with the best of them”: a close friend of Philip Roth’s remembers the enigmatic writer