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Piano Man

Tough Luck

Revisiting Lucky Jim, which Kingsley Amis wrote in collaboration with Philip Larkin before the friends fell out, a writer uncovers equal parts humor and spite

Crown of Thorns

A new book reveals the identity of the royal whom Meghan and Harry called out in their Oprah interview. Hint: he’s next in line to the throne

Boeing’s Double Game

Why was a sole Boeing employee criminally charged in the 737 MAX debacle that cost 346 lives and at least $21 billion?

The Chosen Ones

Garbo Lives

Nanny Diaries

A new book tells the story of Vivian Maier, the 20th-century nanny who led a secret life as a street photographer

Café Noir

Guitar Hero

B. B. King has been called “the world’s greatest blues singer.” A new book argues that his guitar riffs are just as influential

The Gang’s All Here

The first collection of Bruce Weber’s golden-retriever shots celebrates the dogs who never leave the photographer’s side, otherwise known as “the gang”

Suspect Protection Program

History’s largest-ever counterterrorism investigation enlisted efforts from the U.S., the U.K., and Pakistan. Why was its main suspect allowed to run free?

Murder, They Wrote

Dreaming Big

Flora Collins

The Brooklyn-based writer whose debut novel combines Freud, Jordan Peele’s Us, and her own upbringing

Crypto Cowboys

Lit on the Rocks

Cloud Atlas

A new book explores the 10 regions, from Australia to Ethiopia to outer space, that tell us where the world is headed next

High Rollers

A new coffee-table book pays homage to the hottest roller disco of 1980s West Hollywood: Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace

Full Frontal Louis

In his 1964 best-seller, The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss shrank from taking on sexual predation in New England prep schools. Four decades later, he made up for it

A Gentleman (Murderer) in Paris

The Real Pulp Fiction

Hard Case Crime reissues the best in hard-boiled crime novels—and has turned Stephen King into a contributor

The Courage to His Couture

Kids Those Days

During W.W. II, Albert Camus befriended an unlikely Resistance network: a group of children. Their plight helped inspire his masterpiece

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