Murder, They Wrote
The best mystery books to read this month
Joel Meyerowitz’s Life in Photography
One of the pioneers of color photography looks back on his six-decade career in a new book
Lessons in Controversy
During his years as publisher of The New Republic, Martin Peretz held sway over Washington. In a memoir, he attempts to make sense of the fall from grace that followed
The Indie Revolution
In the British book world, risk-averse legacy publishers are losing all the top literary prizes to small, experimental publishing houses
Logging On
To write about three troubled girls’ deaths, a journalist looked at their online lives. Through her research, she found the limits of digital sleuthing
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a look at a 1960s artistic epicenter, the saga of two men rowing across the Atlantic, and a fresh take on the 1968 presidential election
When Amusement Reigned
The pavilions and garden follies of pre-revolutionary France are collected in a charming new coffee-table book
Facing the Music
A look back at the early days of the recording industry, before the advent of microphones and volume control
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a sprawling anthology of the true-crime genre, a look at Teddy Roosevelt’s longest friendship, and a compact history of music
The Secret History
Jackie O spent the years after her husband’s assassination trying to keep out of the public eye. Years later, her job as a book editor encouraged her to see the value in revealing private people’s secrets
The Cult Around the Corner
For nearly 30 years, a fringe psychologist exerted total control over the lives of his followers. His not-so-secret headquarters? A town house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
Holding Court
A look at the glamorous and long-forgotten life of the 1930s tennis star Alice Marble
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a memoir from a trial attorney for the rich and infamous, a novel about naughty aristocrats, and the history of Billionaires’ Row
Walking Wounded
An excerpt from the upcoming book Wounds and Other Blessings offers a meditation on physical, emotional, and worldly slights
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
Being Bardot
A dazzling new coffee-table book collects Douglas Kirkland’s and Terry O’Neill’s photographs of Brigitte Bardot behind the scenes of some of her best films
