Cyber Castoffs
A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten
Call Him “Mr. President”
Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace
Seeing Double
How a doppelgänger foiled a secret Nazi plot to shoot a plane carrying precious cargo out of the sky
Working Girl
After Ari, Jackie O spent 20 years in book publishing. A friend of hers remembers that largely overlooked time
Sliding Doors
In her new novel, Curtis Sittenfeld reimagines the life of Hillary without Bill
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
All Quiet in the Forager’s Wood
A new book of photographs takes you mushroom hunting with the great American composer John Cage
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?
