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The Secret Life of Jimmy Nelson

A new book collects the former advertising executive turned intrepid photographer’s shots of Indigenous peoples from Siberia to Nepal to Kenya

The Fall of the House of Astor (Revisited)

A posthumous memoir from the son of New York society’s departed queen offers a self-serving perspective on an infamous scandal

Director’s Cut

In the 1970s, Stanley Kubrick fought to block the publication of The Magic Eye, a book lightly critical of his films. Now, it’s finally getting published

Warning Signs

Publicly, Winthrop Bell was known as a standout Harvard professor. Secretly, the British spy was the first to raise the alarm about World War II