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A House Divided

Sister Act

How the McLaughlin twins broke the glass ceiling of the male-dominated photography industry during the golden age of magazines

Liar’s Poker, London–Style

How I went from the mean streets of East London to becoming the most profitable trader in the world

(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

All the Queen’s Men

Slapstick Apocalypse

The Forgotten Master

Drumming Up Sympathy

A new biography of rock legend Jim Gordon reveals how the music scene ignored his mental health struggles, then abandoned him when he snapped

Romantasy Addicts

It’s unadulterated escapism. It’s junk food for the mind. Suddenly, sales of fiction classed as both fantasy and romance are booming

Chronicle of an Invasion Foretold

Wham, Bam, Thank You Yam

Guiding Spirit

To write about Carson McCullers, the great American novelist, a biographer briefly lived in her childhood home

Weathering the Storm

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave

Romancing the Twitter Bro

The untold story of the lengths to which Twitter founder Jack Dorsey went to sway his company’s acquisition in Elon Musk’s favor

A Classic Is Born

Spy Games

Spin Doctor

How libertarians’ efforts to deregulate the health-care system has given rise to dubious doctors with dangerous medical advice

Comeback King

Two new biographies of King Charles mark a return to good old-fashioned royal journalism

Unfriendly Envoys

Making the Whole

Murder, They Wrote

This month, a sterling trifecta of books by men who don’t underestimate a woman with a badge

A Voice in the Wilderness

A look at Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, the 20th-century Brazilian general, pacifist, and Amazonian explorer

A St. Swithin’s Day Surprise

The author behind One Day details how fatherhood and getting older inspired his best-seller, which he’s helped turn into a Netflix series

Magnum Opus

A new book celebrates the history and legacy of the Magnum Photos cooperative with work by Eve Arnold, Werner Bischof, René Burri, Martin Parr, and Alessandra Sanguinetti