Highsmith Confidential
Newly released diaries reveal Patricia Highsmith’s affair with a married woman—and an uncharacteristically tender side to the infamous author
The Lost Boys of Fiction
Oh where, oh where have the young male novelists gone?
Blurred Lines
Kurt Vonnegut’s notes and early drafts provide the missing link between his fictional characters and his own personal life
Shows and Tales
A new oral history brings back the glory days of the rock concert, starting with rock’s post–World War II R&B roots and going all the way through 1985’s Live Aid
Victimhood Goes Mad
The tribulations of the brainy and beautiful. Tiny violins, please!
The Last Picture Show
The illustrious illustrator recalls the humble 1950s graphic publication with big dreams he founded on a whim with Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser
A Man for All Seasons
From fashion to film to a stint at magazine editing, Tom Ford does it all. In the foreword to a new book, the author tries to describe how Ford became Tom Ford
Staff Picks
This week, don’t miss a collection of letters by writers from Beckett to Vonnegut; a history of the 13th Tour de France; and a guide to the world’s most peculiar foods
The Lap of Luxury
A new memoir reveals the late Karl Lagerfeld in all of his complexity
Flipping the Godfather Script
Mario Puzo was an avid gambler, novelist, and pizza eater. But there was one department where he could use some help: screenwriting
Jerusalem Syndrome
The Christian obsession with the holy city has played a key role in creating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and remains a stumbling block to its resolution
Exposing Her Weiner
Huma Abedin claims she had never heard of sex addiction until her husband’s sexting scandal broke
Taxi Driving
An illustrated history of the New York taxicab recalls the glory days of early motorized cars and spacious Checkers
Risky Business
The notorious Jazz Age madam Polly Adler played hostess to every gangster, politician, and writer of the Roaring 20s—even, she once claimed, to F.D.R.
Pfizer v. Trump
Inside Pfizer’s high-stakes coronavirus-vaccine trials and Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine them
Changing His Tune
Noël Coward was many things—a playwright, an actor, a filmmaker. The editor of a new collection of his writings explores another one of his talents
