Staff Picks
Don’t miss a biography of the American painter Winslow Homer; a little-told story about Benjamin Franklin; and a memoir turned meditation on books
Spires, Squires, and Liars
A contemporary of Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s traces Brexit, and the state of politics in Britain today, back to 1980s Oxford
Murder, They Wrote
Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic
Don’t Look Up
Coronavirus deniers are following the climate-change-denial playbook to a tee. Will the cycle ever break?
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
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
Forgetting Sarah Palin
While trying to understand the current Republican Party, most journalists have ignored the woman who foreshadowed Donald Trump
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
Enter the Beaux-Arts
A new book highlights the gilded Beaux-Arts architecture of turn-of-the-last-century New York City
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
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
