Finding Albert Ballin
How a German-Jewish businessman helped make possible the emigration of 1.5 million Jews from Eastern Europe—then largely disappeared from history
Emperor of the New Order
How a promising young director gave up a comfortable life in Hollywood—and gained true creative freedom for a new generation of filmmakers. An exclusive excerpt from The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
Wave to the Camera
A new book of photos by the big kahuna of surfing photography, Jimmy Metyko, captures early-80s Southern California in all its Point Break glory
Murder, They Wrote
Long-cold cases get hot again in the season’s best mystery books—and oldie-but-goodie TV dramas
Hollywood Beginning
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel captures the actor’s mindset so incisively that Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps are early fans
Man’s Best Friends
For his entire career, Michael Frayn avoided writing about people he knew. His new book, written at 89, is about 13 of his closest friends
A Head for Business, a Body for Sin
From Virginia Woolf to Carolee Schneemann, a new book explores the role of the female body in art
Making Up for Lost Time
After a decade-long wait, a follow-up to the best-selling debut thriller I Am Pilgrim is here
Across the Jillyverse
Publishing her 18th novel at 86 years old, novelist Jilly Cooper is as prolific—and ready to talk about sex—as ever
Nobels “R” Us
By identifying a gap in the U.K. book market, Jacques Testard turned his kitchen-table publisher into a prizewinning literary powerhouse
Far from the Madding Hive Mind
Inside the UnHerd Club, London’s liveliest—and most controversial—new literary salon
Joining “the Firm”
An aspiring journalist from New Delhi gets a private tour of Kensington Palace—his new girlfriend’s childhood home
Get the Money, Get the Power
In 1983, critics panned Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone’s remake of Scarface. A decade later it became a cult hit, thanks to the hip-hop community
On the Air
An exclusive excerpt from UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There revisits the American public’s close encounter … with Orson Welles
Hidden Figures
How an environmental historian accidentally discovered the Morris sisters, influential but long-overlooked 19th-century naturalists
