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Fact and Fiction

The Wife That History Forgot

A new discovery sheds fresh light on Alice Hathaway Lee, Theodore Roosevelt’s first love, who was largely written off as inconsequential in the president’s life

Fifty Shades of Romantasy

How a genre fusing romance and fantasy—replete with kinky elves—took over best-seller lists and women’s nightstands everywhere

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

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