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French Dispatch

Inside the life and work of Annie Ernaux, the French writer who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature

Warning Signs

After Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to escape Auschwitz, he detailed the horrors of the concentration camp in a chilling report. Why did the world ignore it?

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a coffee-table book devoted to big animals; a corrective to a Fox News conspiracy theory about WikiLeaks; and a chronicle of Vienna’s culture

Down and Out in Architecture

Wasn’t It a Long Way Down?

Lower the Tsar

Before Gwyneth Paltrow, There Was Lydia E. Pinkham

For a time, the face of a popular yet ineffective health tonic was the most recognizable woman in America. Her marketing set the stage for today’s $4.4 trillion wellness industry

Motherless Russia

Murder, They Wrote

Mystery books past and present honor Queen Elizabeth II and the kingdom she leaves behind

Seriously Stevie

Back to the Future

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a look back at the 1920s’ most transfixing murder, the final installment of a three-part history of Napoleon, and a robust argument for prison reform

Mind Games

The New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv, whose debut book is out now, discusses mental illness in its many forms

Memories of Mantel

Hilary Mantel’s longtime editor remembers the singular talent and warm generosity of the writer who brought us the Thomas Cromwell trilogy

Night at the Opera

The little-known story of two British spinsters who saved dozens of Jewish musicians during World War II—and the Viennese star composer who helped them do it

Survivor, D.C. Edition

The new genre of books taking over Washington? Memoirs by Trump-administration survivors who tried to do their work in the midst of insanity

Star Quality

The Shock of the New

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a buoyant account of the sunken Titanic, the origin story of Manhattan’s favorite T. rex, and a search for the real “Torso Killer”

The Goldman Years

In her memoir, a former Goldman Sachs financial analyst reckons with her two decades of short-selling stocks and enduring finance bros’ sexism

Race to the Bottom

A Journal of the Plague Year

Art Nouveau

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