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Life After Boris

Marina Wheeler on her new book, her broken marriage to Boris Johnson, and raising children who won’t speak to their father

A World Apart

Never-before-published photographs by Steve McCurry bring faraway places and cultures into radiant focus

A Harvard Whodunit

Two Lovers

Sylvia Plath’s biographer uncovers the poems her husband, Ted Hughes, wrote for her after her tragic death

A Tale of Two Britains

A Day in the Life

On the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ breakup, early photographs capture the band on the cusp of fame

Léna in Paris

With the publication of a self-help book that is outselling classics, millennial influencer Léna Mahfouf casts herself as a French girl next door

Joker Face

New This Week

Roger Lewis reviews Douglas Murray’s biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s lover, and Tom Burgis unravels a web of financial crime in Kleptopia, reviewed by Simon Nixon

Lockdown Pick-Me-Up

The deputy books editor at The Times of London recommends the best humorous volumes to take the edge off, including classics from Nora Ephron, Bill Bryson, and P. G. Wodehouse

Rocket Science

Books and Bombs

Gold Rush

Photographs celebrate the epic car chase in Goldfinger, set in scenic Switzerland and starring the late Sean Connery

Margaret Atwood

The author of The Handmaid’s Tale is best known for her fiction, but she’s been a poet all her life. Here, she shares her favorites in the genre

The Best of Sedaris

An interview with David Sedaris about his preferences and peeves, on the occasion of his visit to the U.S.—and his new book

A Mission from God

Five years in the making, a limited-edition three-volume collection zeroes in on the magic of the Sistine Chapel

Larger Than Life

The British explorer takes readers to Okavango Delta in Botswana, the majestic African elephant’s favorite watering hole

Out and About

William the Heir, Harry the Spare

Social Exposures

Camilla McGrath’s photographs of Jackie Kennedy, Mick Jagger, Carrie Fisher, Truman Capote, and others depict worlds colliding

Murder, They Wrote

(Box) Office Flop

A lavish short film starring WeWork C.E.O. Adam Neumann’s infamous wife, Rebekah, was a harbinger of things to come

Life on the Nile

Music Man

With his nasty temper and squalid lifestyle, Beethoven was not an easy genius. Writing from the perspective of his lover, an author explores the appeal