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A Tall Order

Photographs by Joe Woolhead chronicle the demise of the World Trade Center and the building of the new one

Working Girls

A former U.S. Army major general brings the untold stories of the women who changed the course of World War II to light

Rough Riders

Short List

What to read this week, from a history of British musical theater to an account of the World Trade Center’s rebuilding and an inside look at the deep sea

Murder, They Wrote

The Wonderful Wizard of Dyson

Eight questions with the inventor James Dyson, who has a new memoir, on electric cars and the thinking behind the $399 hair dryer

The Roads Less Traveled

The Whitehead Way

The Way of the Jackal

Before Edward Fox made the Jackal a household character, Frederick Forsyth wrote the book. Fifty years on, The Day of the Jackal still thrills

The Art of Subtlety

To attract readers but stump libel lawyers, 20th-century magazine writers alluded to sordid gossip instead of printing it

Inside Afghanistan

At the core of the current Afghanistan disaster is the West’s misunderstanding of a country and its people. These books offer a good place to start

Family Feuds

The story of famed U.K. department store John Lewis rivals that of the Murdoch clan in its similarities with Succession