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State of the Arts

The Great Gay Way

W Is for “Women”

A new book of essays and photos traces the fashion, life, and inspirations of Yves Saint Laurent from A to Z. Amy Fine Collins zeroes in on his muses

The Year That Changed Everything

The turn of the century saw a “stop the steal” election followed by a devastating terrorist attack. America was never the same

Kindred Spirits

I Spy …

A Match Made in Hell

Worlds Apart

Yes, people who believe the Earth is flat still exist. Here’s how this radical conspiracy movement got its start—and how to get its believers to see the light

More Is More

Skyhorse will seemingly publish anything, from the conspiracist screeds of Roger Stone and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the canceled essays of Norman Mailer

How to Get Away with Murder

A Fistful of Donald

For $75, you too can buy a gaudy, gold-accented coffee-table book featuring all things Trump. Proceeds go to MAGA and Mar-a-Lago

Murder, They Wrote

New mystery books by Cara Black, Lucy Foley, and Nina de Gramont, paired with a Georges Simenon classic, take on Paris and Agatha Christie

Diary of a Mad Max

Man of Mystery

Murder-mystery novelist Anthony Horowitz has re-invented the genre. Now he’s tackling screen adaptations and cancel culture

Prison Break

Incarcerated at just 25 years old, Daniel Genis spent a decade behind bars reading everything from Heidegger to Tolkien

The Forgotten Kennedy Matriarch

Switching Geres

The author of a new book about China and Hollywood reveals how Richard Gere went from A-list to blacklist

The Original Walter White

Party Like It’s 1798

Playing with Fire

For the years that Australia banned Philip Roth’s controversial novel Portnoy’s Complaint, a cottage industry churned out handmade bootleg copies

A Picture Worth a Thousand Sins

Taken in her London home, it was the photo that became synonymous with Ghislaine Maxwell’s culpability. Why hasn’t the U.K. taken action against her?

Stupid and Contagious

Working Girl

In Brown v. Board of Education, more than a dozen attorneys fought to overturn school segregation. Only one of them juggled a legal career and motherhood

Risky Business