Commune of the Flies
Six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months. It turned out very differently than William Golding’s terrifying novel
Working Girl
After Ari, Jackie O spent 20 years in book publishing. A friend of hers remembers that largely overlooked time
Sliding Doors
In her new novel, Curtis Sittenfeld reimagines the life of Hillary without Bill
Calder Complex
“My fan mail is enormous—everybody is under six”: on the American sculptor’s complicated relationship with his admirers
Seeing Double
How a doppelgänger foiled a secret Nazi plot to shoot a plane carrying precious cargo out of the sky
Call Him “Mr. President”
Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace
Cyber Castoffs
A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten
The Family Jewels
A writer’s secret history spans a century, two world wars, and countless precious artworks
Wild Nights—Wild Life!
She wanted to make her family proud, and she wanted to be famous: Emily Dickinson’s biographer reveals the poet’s fiery character
The Way Things Were
A look back at the debauched inner workings of 80s-era Oxford social life