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In Cold Blood: A Why-Dunnit

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

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

Big in Japan

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

A Tale of Two Heroes

Jennifer Weiner

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

Fake It till You Invade It

The Vegas of the South

The Anti-Intellectual

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