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Tall Tales

How super-tall, pencil-thin buildings are changing Manhattan’s classic skyline

Kathryn Bromwich

How a bout of long COVID during the height of the pandemic gave way to a London editor’s debut novel

The Last Hurrah

A new book collects the 1980s party photographs of Dafydd Jones, chronicler of British high society at its most riotous, just as that world was coming to an end

The Diary of Hannah Goslar

In an excerpt from her memoir, Anne Frank’s closest childhood friend recalls the years leading up to their deportations, and their against-all-odds reunion

Bons Mots and Bad Turns

Back to the Beginning

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

Eminently Ridiculous

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

Clash of the Traumas

For Art’s Sake

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

A Swann’s (Three-) Way

Eyes on the Ball

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

Talkin’ Like Connie Converse

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mystery books put the spotlight on veteran sleuths

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

Hushed Tones