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French Exit

Five titans of the Parisian literati have left one of the city’s most distinguished publishing houses, amid accusations that Sarkozy is now pulling the strings

Bad Moon Rising

Touch of Evil

Arsenic and Old Lace

Staff Picks

This week, don’t miss the tale of one hospital’s pandemic triumphs and screwups; a searing account of Kabul’s fall; and a history of the Getty dynasty

Unforgotten

Since 2006, the site Neglected Books has championed wrongly overlooked novels. Now it’s republishing them

The Old Man and the Son

The Pig League

After the Flood

Decades before climate change became irrefutable, the English novelist J. G. Ballard envisioned a much warmer world with vastly higher sea levels

Making Banksy

A new book compiles graffiti by the elusive street artist, from the 1990s to today

Flash Back

Three decades on, Harry Flashman, the philandering protagonist of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman series, is still sympathetic

Growing Pains

Murder, They Wrote

Killers, poseurs, and arrivistes … criminals with social ambition and a taste for vengeance dominate this month’s new mystery novels

Big Tobacco, but for Big Fish

Investigating the dark underbelly of salmon farming, journalists find echoes of the oil and tobacco industries

Schools of Thought

Children’s literature has been hit hard by the culture wars. Anthony Horowitz suggests giving in less—and listening to Ricky Gervais more

Agente Provocatrice

The Arrangement

The Original Playboy

Game of Thrones

A Numbers Game

We associate algebra, geometry, and calculus with practicality and logic. But the origins of math are as mysterious as any scripture

Grand Slam

La Vie en Azur

A new book celebrates the sun-soaked and star-studded legacy of the French Riviera

A Lexical Feast

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a detailed account of Harvey Weinstein’s rise and fall; the inside story of the U.S.’s war against the Islamic State; and a history of Fire Island