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Banlieue Boys

Blonde Ambition

The Magic Touch

Harry Houdini built an elaborate web of deception in his quest for immortality. Nearly a century after his death, his biographer notes, the myths have corroded but his legend lives on

Tunnel Vision

André Bishop

On the first books he loved

Chronicling Harlem

A new book collects the rare work of Leo Goldstein, the little-known photographer who cast his lens on life in postwar East Harlem

Postcard from the Alps

With fall comes winter planning: a new cookbook features photographs of Europe’s snowy peaks, and food to match

The Deep End

They Publish the Perished

Thanks to New York Review Books Classics, masterpieces such as Stoner, Speedboat, and Poison Penmanship are back in print and finding new fans

The Last Queen of France

Marie Antoinette’s biographer on her secret plot to stop the Revolution, and what history got wrong about the monarch

Last Tango in Brandoland

Deborah Berke

On the books that unite literature and architecture

A Room of Their Own

A 1920s note from Vita to Virginia is an exercise in reassuring a lover

Murder, They Wrote

Not Kipling’s Burma

Once upon a Time in China

Short List

First Light

Anthony Horowitz

On the most intriguing—and enduring—fiction

John Le Carré is dead at 89. Here, a review of his last book

Genius Loves Company

The author of the first account of Einstein’s British entanglement unveils the physicist’s unlikely
English-countryside hosts

Short List

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The astrophysicist and author on the last books he picked up, and the one he couldn’t finish

No Half Measures