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A Tale of Two Heroes

On the Dodge

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

No New Facts

A Tonic for the Times

Hollywood’s Bomb

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

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

Master of Disguise

Murder, They Wrote

Study in Scarlet

A first look at Joe McCarthy’s just opened archive casts the infamous senator as a precursor to Trump

Making Light Work

Style and Substance

All That Jazz

A visual history traces the genre from its 19th-century roots in blues-and-ragtime New Orleans to the present day

Dear Abigail

Death by Committee?

A Lighthouse of One’s Own

The Way Things Were

A look back at the debauched inner workings of 80s-era Oxford social life

Read and Be Merry

Murder, They Wrote

Wild Nights—Wild Life!

She wanted to make her family proud, and she wanted to be famous: Emily Dickinson’s biographer reveals the poet’s fiery character

Life Under Mao

The Wandering Jews

All the Rage