Editors’ Picks
This week, don’t miss a queer reimagining of 1970s Italian filmmaking, a biography of the “zip” painter Barnett Newman, Thomas Beller’s personal essays, and a dictionary of 2,000 ways to say “rain” in Japanese
¡Ay, Caramba!
Exile in Abu Dhabi hasn’t stopped Spain’s disgraced king, Juan Carlos I, from sounding off on “benevolent” dictator Francisco Franco, Princess Diana, and that infamous safari incident
A Family of Filmmakers
Two of Me brings Eleanor Coppola’s revelatory, 50-year diary project to a close
Across the Universe
From James Baldwin to Stephen Hawking, Dublin to the Bronx, a coffee-table book collects 60 years of photographs by the social-justice advocate and artist Stephen Shames
Ariana Harwicz
As her debut novel inspires a new thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, the Argentinean writer unveils her fifth and darkest book, Unfit
Editor’s Pick
This week, don’t miss Walter Isaacson’s deep dive into the sentence that birthed a nation: “We hold these truths to be self-evident … ”
A Wrinkle in Time
Toni Morrison, Truman Capote, Patti Smith … A new coffee-table book collects Richard Avedon’s portraits of his aging subjects
The Wrecking Crew
Last week’s surprise demolition of the White House’s East Wing wasn’t the first time Trump destroyed a great American building
There’s Something About Julie
How Walt Disney and the Sherman brothers landed on Julie Andrews for the role of Mary Poppins—without whom “A Spoonful of Sugar” would not exist
Jeeves and the Well-Meaning Acolytes
A collection of 12 new stories about P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster—including tales by Roddy Doyle and Dominic Sandbrook—update the duo
Of Monsters and Mangione
For a window into the motive of UnitedHealthcare killer Luigi Mangione, one biographer delved deep into the world of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s admirers
The Sky’s the Limit
From the Wright brothers’ near-fatal crashes to this year’s midair collision over the Potomac, failure has always been the cost of progress in aviation
Sam Shepard and the Blue Star Kachina
Inside the making of Operation Sidewinder, the playwright’s first and only drama to premiere on Broadway
Let’s Do the Time Warp Again!
With Halloween around the corner, music photographer Mick Rock’s behind-the-scenes images from the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show offer a rare glimpse into the making of Richard O’Brien’s campy cult classic
Virginia Giuffre’s Last Words
An explosive account of alleged abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew is seeing the light of day six months after Giuffre’s suicide
The Making of Bruce Lee
A new book traces the actor’s journey from Hong Kong to Hollywood—and reveals how his career redefined Asian representation on-screen
The Beatnik and the Mobster
How did an unpublished story by Jack Kerouac end up in the possession of Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano?
Surreal Estate
A new coffee-table book chronicles the revival of Château Léoube, a 14th-century Provence estate transformed over the last decade by British billionaire Anthony Bamford and his wife, Daylesford Organic founder Carole Bamford
Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch
Heroes and victims on the autism spectrum add a layer of complexity and cleverness to this month’s best mystery books and TV shows
The Man Behind the Monster
The little-known story of the Harvard professor whose sadistic experiments may have helped transform Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber
