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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.

A Filmmaker with a View

To Thine Own Self Be Blue

When Trump Trumps Logic

Books on Donald Trump’s narcissism, by Michael Wolff, and financial misdeeds, by David Cay Johnston, sound a familiar alarm. Will people listen?

The Godfather of The Godfather

How Mario Puzo turned his gambling addiction and fruitful imagination into the best Mob story of all time

Dior Dreaming

Accompanying an exhibition on Christian Dior at New York’s Brooklyn Museum, an elegant volume spans the many iterations of the French fashion house

Faulty-Hearts Club

How Baby Fae, the 1980s infant who survived for several days with a baboon heart, paved the way for innovative new approaches to organ donation

Middle Men

21st-Century Churchill

New Woman, Old Baggage

Around the World with Oscar Wilde

Following in Wilde’s footsteps, from his birthplace of Dublin to the Peloponnese, the American Midwest, and the prison he spent the better part of two years in

He’s More than Logan Roy

In his new memoir, Brian Cox recounts his journey from growing up poor in Scotland to ruling Succession

Brain Teaser

Amor Towles

The A Gentleman in Moscow author shares the American classics he read while preparing to write his latest novel, The Lincoln Highway

Petty Clash

The left-leaning Paul Samuelson and right-leaning Milton Friedman went to their graves disagreeing with each other over economics

Palace Intrigue

Murder, They Wrote

A Walk on the Wild Side

Eight questions with Susan Orlean, the writer portrayed by Meryl Streep in Adaptation, whose new book explores our interactions with animals

We’ll Always Have Paris

Photographs highlight the city’s boutiques, studios, and ateliers that have withstood the test of time

Swans Along Fifth Avenue

A new book feeds our continuing fascination with Truman Capote—and the society beauties he loved and hated

M.I.6 and All That

David Sedaris’s Diary

America’s comedian in England reveals more than 10 years’ worth of his inner thoughts

Bourdain Confidential

The longtime Parts Unknown producer remembers his off-screen moments with Anthony Bourdain

Follow Your Nose

The hunt for the world’s most expensive ingredient has led to surprising new places—but Big Truffle doesn’t want the word to get out