A Publisher of One’s Own
For 25 years, Persephone Books has been turning the works of forgotten female writers into unexpected best-sellers
Finding Gaudí
How the playful details of Antoni Gaudí’s architecture turned one critic into an admirer
Spring Breakers
A new book of photographs evokes the sun-and-booze-soaked days of British holidayers in southern Spain during the 60s and beyond
All That Is Solid Melts into Theory
How did a once obscure academic notion called “gender identity” triumph over material reality? Credit—or blame—Judith Butler
Reaching for the Starman
How a stylist went from cutting David Bowie’s mother’s hair to joining the rockstar’s rollicking Ziggy Stardust tour
A Touch of Smut
Wayne Koestenbaum has been writing seriously salacious poetry for decades. A new collection about New York and its denizens gets down and dirty
Murder, They Wrote
Revenge—served hot, cold, and everywhere in between—dominates this month’s new mystery books
A Mission from God
How an epic friendship born out of quaaludes, comedy, and a shared love of R&B paved the way for The Blues Brothers
Plot Twist
Six years after his blockbuster debut thriller—and a scandal about his credibility—A. J. Finn publishes his much-anticipated follow-up novel
The Beginning of Everything
Polo, parties, and the American Dream … how my grandfather inspired Fitzgerald’s Gatsby
Hitting the Ceiling
While Michelangelo’s St. Peter’s Basilica is remembered as a Renaissance masterpiece, the drama around the construction nearly stopped the project
Liar’s Poker, London–Style
How I went from the mean streets of East London to becoming the most profitable trader in the world
Sister Act
How the McLaughlin twins broke the glass ceiling of the male-dominated photography industry during the golden age of magazines
(Mid-)20th-Century Women
Ruth Orkin’s postwar photographs, collected in a new book, offer a snapshot of the modern woman navigating life in the big city
