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The Polish Canon

Jared Harris

Shares the standouts on his bookshelf

A Portrait of the Surrealists

In the Money

Tangier Style

A new book, out in September, features photographs of the Moroccan coastal city’s picturesque homes and gardens

All Modern Women Are Jealous

Fool’s Gold

News from the Front

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

Lara’s Song

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

The Longest Day

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

Inspectors About Town

Top Shop

The author, whose new book is out this fall, selects his favorite Scottish bookshop

Nasty Business

Short List

Wondering Eye

François Halard’s photography gets inside the homes and studios—and aesthetic experiences—of artists

Long Story Short

Jacqueline Woodson

Selects three of this year’s best novels

Smyth on Smith

A Higher Power

A new biography offers a look into the diary of Israel’s founder