There’s Something About Serena
What is it about Serena Williams that brings the world’s best tennis players to their knees?
When David Met Carmen
An alluring new book explores the relationship between two fashion luminaries
Drama Queen
Over a decade-long career at HBO, Miranda Cowley Heller worked on The Sopranos and The Wire. Her debut novel is as fun as the best TV shows
Short List
Books to read this week, including a memoir from Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris; an inside look at the Secret Service; the true story of a Montauk shipwreck; and a colorful history of spas
Love at First Letter
Inside the bizarre world of dating, sex, and marriage in America’s prisons
Bret Easton Ellis’s Rules of Attraction
The shock jock of American letters is back with a serialized audiobook that eschews the culture wars for something closer to home
Building Castles in the Air
Photographs highlight the revolutionary work of today’s leading women architects
Digital Liberation
The Internet can be a dangerous place for women. But it has also powered a revolutionary global movement for women’s rights
Match Made in Hell, Part II
What would you do if the man you were sleeping with turned out to be a psychopath on the U.K.’s most-wanted list?
The Wave of the Future Is Female
Tracing the male-dominated history of surfing to its women-wave-rider roots
O’Keeffe O’Clock
New York City street scenes meet oversize flowers and the American West in a sweeping survey of Georgia O’Keeffe’s epic work
The Mother of All Battles
What was behind Ethel Rosenberg’s fateful decision to stand by her traitor husband?
Hemingway’s Ghost
The writer’s granddaughter is cashing in on her last name, endorsing new authors’ books for a fee
Apples to Oranges
Charming watercolors catalogue a century of American fruits and nuts
