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Shady Lady

Spires, Squires, and Liars

A contemporary of Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s traces Brexit, and the state of politics in Britain today, back to 1980s Oxford

Don’t Look Up

Coronavirus deniers are following the climate-change-denial playbook to a tee. Will the cycle ever break?

Breathing Fire

Gary Indiana has a new collection of essays, Fire Season. In an interview, the outspoken critic lets loose on young writers, politicians, and just about everyone else

Power Trip

The First Lord and Lady of the Theater

Stand-up Women

Putin’s Enemy No. 1

Eight questions with Bill Browder, whose new book, Freezing Order, offers a captivating follow-up to his 2015 nonfiction Russia thriller, Red Notice

Piatti for Children

The Swiss designer Celestino Piatti’s children’s books are combined into a single volume for the first time

Forgetting Sarah Palin

While trying to understand the current Republican Party, most journalists have ignored the woman who foreshadowed Donald Trump

Filthy Rich

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a comedic cancer memoir from Delia Ephron; chronicles of a man retracing the steps of Alexander the Great; and the tale of an impostor journalist

Enter the Beaux-Arts

A new book highlights the gilded Beaux-Arts architecture of turn-of-the-last-century New York City

Paris Snatch

The Man Who Invented Movies

While Thomas Edison is widely known as “the father of motion pictures,” a Frenchman by the name of Louis Le Prince actually got there first—and then disappeared

Citizen Cimino

Staff Picks

Don’t miss an investigation into the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting; a new biography of Harry Truman; and a Broadway memoir

Books and a Place to Read Them

From the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op, an ode to the quiet magic of independent bookshops around the country

Bright Lights, Big City

Murder, They Wrote

Stormy weather plays a central role in this month’s best mystery novels. Plus, revisiting one of the first-ever police procedurals

“Hold It Right There … ”

With a devoted following among the fashion crowd—and a girlfriend in Kate Moss—Nikolai von Bismarck is London’s photographer of the moment

Brainspotting

The world-renowned neurologist A. J. Lees is on a mission to humanize doctors

From Glasgow, with Love and Struggle

The Royal Treatment