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Hopeless Romantics

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a biography of Ayn Rand, a murder mystery set in the Deep South, and a collection of Ernest Hemingway’s letters

The Making of a Movement

In the 1960s and 1970s, women’s liberation transformed America. Voices from that time tell how it came to be

One-Man Show

Poster City

A new book collects a century of posters and advertisements that shaped New York City’s rise as the cultural capital of the world

Notes from Underground

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a modern twist on King Arthur’s court, a look at the women who shaped the ancient world, and a history of World War I’s Eastern Front

Cooked in the Books

When it comes to literary hit jobs, no public figures—from the Beckhams all the way to Mother Teresa—are safe from merciless biographers

La Ville Lumière, According to Honoré de Balzac

Hollywood Diaries

It’s Complicated

A former PBS producer who was sexually harassed by her then boss, Charlie Rose, reflects on what #MeToo got wrong about women in the workplace

Ozempic Meets Its Match

From Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight to Emma Specter’s More, Please, fat-phobia and eating disorders are getting the literary treatment in this year’s Zeitgeisty nonfiction releases

Better by Design

From postwar European churches to post-revolution Cuba, two new books chart the rise of midcentury modernism

Rally the Troops

A Ukrainian journalist’s firsthand account of Russia’s invasion of his country

Bedroom Politics

A Very Deadly Year

Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Georges Simenon all published murderous masterpieces in the same year. Why?

Seaside Splendors

A new book spotlights the Amalfi Coast’s most picturesque homes

The Madness of Madoff

Going Rogue

Going Deep

A paleontology professor details the long history of great white sharks—and reveals what it feels like looking one in the eyes

The Rest Is Fiction

Phillip Toledano’s A.I.-generated photographs of 1940s and 1950s New York, collected in a new book, blur the line between truth and fantasy

Born and Broken in the U.S.A.

The glory days of the heartland Bruce Springsteen evoked on Born in the U.S.A. 40 years ago feel like a distant memory in today’s America

Demimonde Dreaming

Down and Out in 90s America