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Flying the Coop

There’s Something About Serena

What is it about Serena Williams that brings the world’s best tennis players to their knees?

Not So Happy Place

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

Murder, They Wrote

Post-Babylon Berlin

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

Treasure Island

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

Pilgrimage to 19th-Century Italy

Once upon a Time …, Cont’d.

The Mother of All Battles

What was behind Ethel Rosenberg’s fateful decision to stand by her traitor husband?

French Exit

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

Tricks of the Trade

The New Theory of Everything

Saving Malta

The In-Between

Nearly three minutes elapsed between the time an explosion destroyed the Challenger space shuttle’s fuel tank and the death of its crew members. What happened?