The Name’s Bond … Woke Bond
In an interview, Charlie Higson discusses his new Bond novel and how he adapts the womanizing spy for our times
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss David Remnick’s collected profiles of musicians, a new biography of Martin Luther King Jr., and the story of two poets’ wartime friendship
The Final Countdown
In an interview, the historian Evan Thomas discusses how Russian spies, Harry Truman’s denial, and an immunity to writer’s block played into his new book, on the last days of W.W. II
The Not-So-Nice Saint
Nelson Mandela was South Africa’s savior. His private life was another story
A Summer Odyssey
Emma Cline has communed with the Manson family and channeled Harvey Weinstein. For her new novel, she infiltrates the Hamptons
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s drink-fueled behavior became notorious during their summers on the Riviera, where they were joined by Ernest Hemingway, the Marx Brothers, and Dorothy Parker
The French Twist
The key to mastering French style: look like you don’t care, even when you do
A Summer Odyssey
Emma Cline has communed with the Manson family and channeled Harvey Weinstein. For her new novel, she infiltrates the Hamptons
Ghostwriters with Benefits
Victoria Beckham’s former ghostwriter on the perilous mistake Prince Harry’s ghostwriter has made: liking his subject too much
All in the Family
The Romanovs author Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses his latest book, a sprawling “family history” of humanity from the Stone Age to the drone age
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books put the spotlight on veteran sleuths
The Phantom of the Book List
“The UK’s leading criminologist,” Professor David Wilson, kept getting one-star reviews on Amazon. Putting his investigative credentials to the test, he tracked down the culprit
Talking Dirty
A sociologist separates fact from fiction in the enduring debate over the dangers of porn
Jackie Kennedy, on Candid Camera
Before marrying J.F.K., Jackie transformed a staid newspaper column into “the best escapist literature” in Washington
A Tendency to Court Disaster
Peter Matthiessen aspired to write the Great American Novel. His son Lucas’s posthumous memoir reads like Greek tragedy
