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
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
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
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
A Portable Feast
A new book pairs Dwight Garner’s complementary obsessions: reading and eating
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books pile on the Halloween scaries with a mix of religious cults, international terrorism, and the lottery
The Rolling Stones, Out of Time
On the heels of Hackney Diamonds, the Rolling Stones’ first original studio album in 18 years, a new book collects rare and never-before-seen images of the band, photographed by Bill Wyman, Terry O’Neill, and others
“A Castro or Worse”
Patrice Lumumba won the Congo independence in 1960, but his suspected Soviet sympathies led to his overthrow. A new book reveals the man behind the myth—and the C.I.A.’s role in his murder
Family Values
In a new book, a son pays homage to his mother, a muckraking investigative journalist
The Life and Legend of Maggie Higgins
She was one of the few female war correspondents assigned to W.W. II and Korea. A new book details Higgins’s intrepid life, both in the field and amid the misogyny of the 20th-century news industry
