Breathing Fire
Gary Indiana has a new collection of essays, Fire Season. In an interview, the outspoken critic lets loose on young writers, politicians, and just about everyone else
Don’t Look Up
Coronavirus deniers are following the climate-change-denial playbook to a tee. Will the cycle ever break?
Putin’s Enemy No. 1
Eight questions with Bill Browder, whose new book, Freezing Order, offers a captivating follow-up to his 2015 nonfiction Russia thriller, Red Notice
Piatti for Children
The Swiss designer Celestino Piatti’s children’s books are combined into a single volume for the first time
Staff Picks
Don’t miss a comedic cancer memoir from Delia Ephron; chronicles of a man retracing the steps of Alexander the Great; and the tale of an impostor journalist
Forgetting Sarah Palin
While trying to understand the current Republican Party, most journalists have ignored the woman who foreshadowed Donald Trump
The Man Who Invented Movies
While Thomas Edison is widely known as “the father of motion pictures,” a Frenchman by the name of Louis Le Prince actually got there first—and then disappeared
Enter the Beaux-Arts
A new book highlights the gilded Beaux-Arts architecture of turn-of-the-last-century New York City
Staff Picks
Don’t miss an investigation into the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting; a new biography of Harry Truman; and a Broadway memoir
Books and a Place to Read Them
From the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op, an ode to the quiet magic of independent bookshops around the country
Brainspotting
The world-renowned neurologist A. J. Lees is on a mission to humanize doctors
“Hold It Right There … ”
With a devoted following among the fashion crowd—and a girlfriend in Kate Moss—Nikolai von Bismarck is London’s photographer of the moment
Murder, They Wrote
Stormy weather plays a central role in this month’s best mystery novels. Plus, revisiting one of the first-ever police procedurals
Tour de Force
Charles Dickens highlighted Americans’ most unappealing habits (bad table manners) and practices (slavery). So why haven’t Republicans gone after him?
