The Legend of Bogie and Bacall
Theirs went down in history as that rare thing: a fairy-tale Hollywood marriage. But a new book reveals a rocky start to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s life together
Fact Is Fiction
In an interview, Colson Whitehead discusses his new novel, Crook Manifesto, cancel culture, and why he avoids reading contemporary fiction
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a biography of the oft overlooked 20th U.S. president, James Garfield, a new edition of The Economist’s writing-style guide, and an eccentric coming-of-age novel
Eyes on the City
Evelyn Hofer’s photographs of New York, Paris, and Dublin offer a look at 1950s-and-1960s-era city life and its evocative street scenes
Murder, They Wrote
Martin Amis’s twin obsessions with Hollywood and serial killers are explored in four new mystery novels
In Search of Lost Whimsy
In a new coffee-table book, the eccentric Italian artist and designer Gaetano Pesce looks back on his life and career, and reflects on his longtime enemy: coherence
Into the Wild
The adventurous side of the legendary photographer Peter Beard was part instinct, part carefully manicured image
Safe Haven
Outside of Washington and Manhattan, John F. Kennedy Jr. had a rich, little-explored life on Cape Cod, his sanctuary from childhood up until his death
Viva Venini!
A dazzling new coffee-table book offers a survey of the unparalleled lighting designs of Venini, the Italian glass firm that elevated Murano to new heights
Act of Faith
Serving as a pilot in World War I, Hans Christian Adamson was staunchly agnostic. After he survived a plane’s crash landing, a religious medal took on new meaning
Dance with the Devil
The debut novel from Melanie Hamrick, a former ballerina and the partner of Mick Jagger, explores the brutal world of professional dance
Old-School
A new book looks at the persistent inequality at Clinton High School, the first all-white school ordered to de-segregate in the 1950s
Freedom, According to Azzedine Alaïa and Arthur Elgort
A dazzling new book celebrates the joyful, lively collaboration of a legendary designer and a master photographer
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?
