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The Polish Canon

Jared Harris

Shares the standouts on his bookshelf

In the Money

A Portrait of the Surrealists

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

Fool’s Gold

All Modern Women Are Jealous

News from the Front

Tangier Style

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

Lara’s Song

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

Top Shop

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

Inspectors About Town

The Longest Day

Short List

Jacqueline Woodson

Selects three of this year’s best novels

Long Story Short

Smyth on Smith

Nasty Business

A Higher Power

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

Wondering Eye

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