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Bohemian Rhapsody

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

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

Alexandra Fuller

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

To the Extreme

Enemies’ Enemies

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Bob Balaban

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

Cloudy with a Chance of Doom

License to Burn

Pozzi Scheme

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

Murder, They Wrote

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Caroline de Maigret

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

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

Coco d’Azur

One Crept over the Falcon’s Nest

You Can Take Galileo Out of Rome …

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

Soviet Syndrome

Women of the Resistance

On Topics

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

Claire Tomalin

Recommends four books spanning three centuries