Bad Girls’ Book Club
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert cancels her latest novel because it’s set in Siberia. What’s next? Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky removed from our libraries?
Life in the Fast Lange
The first full-length biography of Jessica Lange reveals how the actress’s bohemian 1960s lifestyle paved the way for her acting career
Face Value
Inside South Korea’s booming plastic-surgery district, where hundreds of faces and bodies are tweaked every day
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mystery books, we recommend reading former F.B.I. director James Comey’s crime-fiction debut, which draws from a lengthy career in and out of the courtroom
A Charmed Life
Poet, human-rights activist, world traveler, wife of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist William Styron—a new memoir chronicles the many sides of Rose Styron
The Bard of Berkshire
Best-selling novelist Robert Harris—his books have sold more than 10 million copies—still writes 800 words a day. Just don’t expect any sex scenes
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a retelling of Western history through 14 thinkers, a deep dive into the places that define Manhattan, and an exploration of private space travel
Tall Tales
How super-tall, pencil-thin buildings are changing Manhattan’s classic skyline
The Last Hurrah
A new book collects the 1980s party photographs of Dafydd Jones, chronicler of British high society at its most riotous, just as that world was coming to an end
The Diary of Hannah Goslar
In an excerpt from her memoir, Anne Frank’s closest childhood friend recalls the years leading up to their deportations, and their against-all-odds reunion
Kathryn Bromwich
How a bout of long COVID during the height of the pandemic gave way to a London editor’s debut novel
The Name’s Bond … Woke Bond
In an interview, Charlie Higson discusses his new Bond novel and how he adapts the womanizing spy for our times
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss David Remnick’s collected profiles of musicians, a new biography of Martin Luther King Jr., and the story of two poets’ wartime friendship
The Final Countdown
In an interview, the historian Evan Thomas discusses how Russian spies, Harry Truman’s denial, and an immunity to writer’s block played into his new book, on the last days of W.W. II
The Not-So-Nice Saint
Nelson Mandela was South Africa’s savior. His private life was another story
A Summer Odyssey
Emma Cline has communed with the Manson family and channeled Harvey Weinstein. For her new novel, she infiltrates the Hamptons
