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Pool Party!

A new book captures the enduring allure of swimming pools

Triumph of the Willing

On the 75th anniversary of Hitler’s defeat, what can William Shirer’s epic history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, teach us about today?

Found in Translation

How did a now forgotten masterpiece of American literature become so beloved by Italians?

Dog Days

Murder, They Wrote

All Quiet in the Forager’s Wood

A new book of photographs takes you mushroom hunting with the great American composer John Cage

Three’s Company

Bad Apples

Books for Spring!

Commune of the Flies

Six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months. It turned out very differently than William Golding’s terrifying novel

Sliding Doors

In her new novel, Curtis Sittenfeld reimagines the life of Hillary without Bill

Calder Complex

“My fan mail is enormous—everybody is under six”: on the American sculptor’s complicated relationship with his admirers

Working Girl

After Ari, Jackie O spent 20 years in book publishing. A friend of hers remembers that largely overlooked time

Catch Him if You Can

Seeing Double

How a doppelgänger foiled a secret Nazi plot to shoot a plane carrying precious cargo out of the sky

Old Bones, New Tricks

Open Sesame

Death in London

Murder, They Wrote

The Radcliffe Five

Call Him “Mr. President”

Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace

Re-Inventing His Spiel

Rock the Boat

Cyber Castoffs

A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten