Talking in Riddles
A collection of 95 medieval riddles has left scholars scratching their heads—and clutching their pearls
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Don’t miss the epic story of a search for a missing canoer; an insider’s look at Italian life; and a re-assessment of 20th-century classical music
Once upon a Time in Hollywood
In the course of their brief, intense marriage, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward lit the match for a cultural explosion in 1960s Los Angeles
Practice Makos Perfect
Christopher Makos showed Andy Warhol how to use his first camera. He also cemented Warhol’s existence as the personification of the “American brand”
Herbie Fully Loaded
In an excerpt from his new book, the author remembers unleashing his father, a well-known negotiator, on a professor he hated
Touching Base
The effect of Jackie Robinson on the lives of average Americans of color is well documented. But he was instrumental for other baseball players of color, too
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Don’t miss a biography of the American painter Winslow Homer; a little-told story about Benjamin Franklin; and a memoir turned meditation on books
Murder, They Wrote
Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic
Spires, Squires, and Liars
A contemporary of Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s traces Brexit, and the state of politics in Britain today, back to 1980s Oxford
Breathing Fire
Gary Indiana has a new collection of essays, Fire Season. In an interview, the outspoken critic lets loose on young writers, politicians, and just about everyone else
Don’t Look Up
Coronavirus deniers are following the climate-change-denial playbook to a tee. Will the cycle ever break?
Putin’s Enemy No. 1
Eight questions with Bill Browder, whose new book, Freezing Order, offers a captivating follow-up to his 2015 nonfiction Russia thriller, Red Notice
Piatti for Children
The Swiss designer Celestino Piatti’s children’s books are combined into a single volume for the first time
Forgetting Sarah Palin
While trying to understand the current Republican Party, most journalists have ignored the woman who foreshadowed Donald Trump
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Don’t miss a comedic cancer memoir from Delia Ephron; chronicles of a man retracing the steps of Alexander the Great; and the tale of an impostor journalist
