Out of Step
While researching his book about the dance company Ballet Russes, Rupert Christiansen stumbled upon a dance critic’s account of their awkward interview
Mystery Man
Eight Questions with Anthony Horowitz, the man behind Foyle’s War and Agatha Christie’s Poirot, a series of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels, and his own mystery TV show
The Wilder West
Post–Civil War, while most white settlers were eager to push American Indians off their land, General William Sherman advocated for the tribes
Murder, They Wrote
This month, mystery books that take place in luxury getaways are perfect settings for murders. Plus: the latest from Michael Connelly, and fresh Scandi noir
Half Myth, Half Man
The author of a new biography of Bo Jackson, an elusive star of both the N.F.L. and M.L.B., didn’t obtain his subject’s participation, but he got the next best thing: 720 original interviews
Keeping Score
Inside the fierce competition, and subtle similarities, between soccer’s greatest rivals: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo
One for the Booker
An interview with Shehan Karunatilaka, the Sri Lankan writer who won the Booker Prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida last week
Staff Picks
Don’t miss the story of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, one woman’s chronicle of world violence, and a glimpse inside Barack Obama’s White House
Along Came Marilyn
A newly discovered letter by Arthur Miller about his young bride, Marilyn Monroe, reveals the playwright’s rookie mistake: marrying a bombshell blonde he barely knew
This Sam Adams Is for You
Eight questions with Stacy Schiff, biographer of everyone from Cleopatra to Nabokov’s wife, Véra, about her latest subject: Samuel Adams
The Home Front
After fighting overseas in World War II, Black soldiers came home to racism and violence in America
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point
Early on, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA was just lonely. His path to the radical right reflects a larger trend among America’s youth
French Dispatch
Inside the life and work of Annie Ernaux, the French writer who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature
Warning Signs
After Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to escape Auschwitz, he detailed the horrors of the concentration camp in a chilling report. Why did the world ignore it?