War Songs
During 1973’s Yom Kippur War, an unexpected ally joined the front lines to boost Israeli soldiers’ morale: Leonard Cohen
Tour de Force
Charles Dickens highlighted Americans’ most unappealing habits (bad table manners) and practices (slavery). So why haven’t Republicans gone after him?
Boeuf Neanderthal!
In an excerpt from Martin Walker’s new “Bruno” story collection, the quintessential Frenchman experiments with prehistoric food and wine
The High and Low
By day, Miriam Leslie was a titan of publishing and the perfect model of the Victorian lady. By night, she was the seductress behind a memorable ménage à trois
Collector’s Edition
In a posthumous essay and drawings, the illustrator Pierre Le-Tan reflects on the art—and sport—of collecting
L.A. Confidential
From briefing Si Newhouse to smoking with Seth Rogen and Danny McBride, a former Vanity Fair editor looks back at the Oscar parties of yore
Bridging the Gap
Julia Quinn, the woman behind the novels that inspired the hit Netflix TV show Bridgerton, discusses the screen adaptation of her Regency romance
The Soros Cosmos
Edited by George Soros’s longtime publisher and friend, a new collection of essays tells the life story of the financier turned philanthropist
The Id of Ali G
In an exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book, Judd Apatow talks with Sacha Baron Cohen about the origins of Borat, Ali G, and his other creations
Libraries of Dreams
A new volume compiles photographs of the world’s oldest and most groundbreaking book collections
A Turn-of-the-Century Patricia Highsmith
The modernist writer Katherine Mansfield offended everyone from T. S. Eliot to E. M. Forster. Her fiction was so witty that the literary world forgave her
Staff Picks
Don’t miss a self-help guide from a former MTV V.J., a collection of interviews with women over 50, and a captivating book about our shrinking attention span
The Making of Caitlyn
A former Vanity Fair editor tells how one of the biggest magazine stories ever—on Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlyn—came to be
Trading Places
The little-known story of Otto Skorzeny, the Führer’s favorite commando leader turned Israeli spy
