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His Back Pages

AIR MAIL Co-Editor Graydon Carter’s upcoming memoir, about the glory days of magazines, recounts his travels among the famous, the infamous, and the not really famous at all

On the Scent

During World War II, spies had a little-suspected weapon: perfume. It was used for everything from building an undercover alias to making covert correspondences seem like love letters

The Widow of Opportunity

A Garten Party

Design Within Reach

Lamps, teacups, ashtrays … A new coffee-table book traces the life and work of the Italian designer Piero Fornasetti

Face the East

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a journey into the S&M underworld, a look at the Chinese education system, and a chronicle of Scotland Yard’s deadliest cases

Malcolm XYZ

Malcolm Gladwell discusses his latest book, Revenge of the Tipping Point, misconceptions about his work, and his penchant for universal laws

The Garden of Heathens

Between the turmoil of the World Wars, a few Europeans settled on a desolate Galápagos island. The experiment quickly descended into chaos

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch

This month’s best mystery books and TV shows

SallyRooney, Queen of Gambits

Jonathan Becker, In Focus

From garden strolls with Brassaï to nights out with Andy Warhol, a new book by the American photographer documents intimate moments with the 20th century’s high society

The Perfect Raid

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a riveting history of mathematics, a history of Afghanistan since 9/11, and a chronicle of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto fraud

Long Live the Queen

Poster Child

The most comprehensive overview of film posters to date is published in a new coffee-table book from Tony Nourmand, the world’s foremost expert on the art form

Houdini of History

Robert Harris, the master of historical fiction, discusses his Ancient Rome Trilogy, U.K. politics, and the subject of his latest novel, Prime Minister H. H. Asquith’s scandalous affair

The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business

Eric Roberts was being groomed for stardom, until a cocaine habit derailed his career—and nearly cost him his life. Now his only addiction is to acting

Ronnie, We Hardly Knew Ye

High and Mighty

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a new edition of Wilfrid Sheed’s 1966 masterpiece, the retelling of a 1980s hostage crisis, and Bernard-Henri Lévy on Israel

Something Wild

A new book collects the provocative and experimental advertisements Guy Bourdin photographed for the shoe brand Charles Jourdan from 1967 to 1983

The Real Babylon Berlin

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