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All the Rage

On Shirley Hazzard

Cyber Castoffs

A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten

Putin’s Provocateurs

Rock the Boat

Call Him “Mr. President”

Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace

Murder, They Wrote

The Radcliffe Five

Re-Inventing His Spiel

Death in London

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

Sliding Doors

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

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

Commune of the Flies

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

Calder Complex

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

Books for Spring!

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

Dog Days