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Diary of a Mad Max

More Is More

Skyhorse will seemingly publish anything, from the conspiracist screeds of Roger Stone and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the canceled essays of Norman Mailer

Prison Break

Incarcerated at just 25 years old, Daniel Genis spent a decade behind bars reading everything from Heidegger to Tolkien

Man of Mystery

Murder-mystery novelist Anthony Horowitz has re-invented the genre. Now he’s tackling screen adaptations and cancel culture

Switching Geres

The author of a new book about China and Hollywood reveals how Richard Gere went from A-list to blacklist

The Original Walter White

The Forgotten Kennedy Matriarch

Party Like It’s 1798

Playing with Fire

For the years that Australia banned Philip Roth’s controversial novel Portnoy’s Complaint, a cottage industry churned out handmade bootleg copies

A Picture Worth a Thousand Sins

Taken in her London home, it was the photo that became synonymous with Ghislaine Maxwell’s culpability. Why hasn’t the U.K. taken action against her?

Stupid and Contagious

Literary Exile

Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching children was beloved by critics and readers. Then a Twitter storm called for it—and its author—to be canceled

Working Girl

In Brown v. Board of Education, more than a dozen attorneys fought to overturn school segregation. Only one of them juggled a legal career and motherhood

Risky Business

An Unblessed Arrangement

Inside the turbulent life and times of Consuelo Vanderbilt, the last heiress to be able to blame her unhappy marriage on someone other than herself

Twin Peaks

Line of Duty

Mr. StarCraft

Elon Musk’s love for video games has informed his career, from PayPal to Tesla, more than perhaps anything else

The Newest Trick Is the Book

Hugo Hamilton’s latest is narrated by an unusual protagonist: a novel

France’s Enfant Terrible

Michel Houellebecq’s books have shocked and appalled readers. His latest novel proves there are insights behind the controversies

Making Waves

Sane, Economy-Class Asian-Americans

Lorraine Hansberry’s Other Half

A new book explores the role of Robert Nemiroff in the success of Lorraine Hansberry, the force behind A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier

Murder, They Wrote