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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

She Means (Show) Business

Genius Loves Company

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

Uncharted Territory

Jenny Slate

On the sharpest female voices, from the 1940s
to the present

People-Mapping

A new book offers fascinating stats—from Viking raids to the countries living sans McDonald’s—through the lens of the world map

How to Serve Man

In 1921, the Lenin-led Soviet Union faced one of the worst famines in history. A new book details its horrors and the American effort to combat cannibalism

Artful Dodger

Murder, They Wrote

Three new mysteries

When Hawthorne Met Melville

Reliving the walk in the Berkshires that changed literary history—and perhaps kindled a great romance

Natasha Stagg

The young author who has her finger on the pulse of the new New York

Piece of Her Heart

Janis Joplin’s biographer reveals the staunch seriousness behind the singer’s free-spirited front

Thatcher’s Undoing

All About Eve

Bowie’s Top 100

Before he died, David Bowie published a list of books that changed his life. A new volume parses through all 100 titles, including a little-remembered 1842 novel

Daydreams

A new collection of photographs by the actor and filmmaker, most of which have never before been published, takes you back to the 60s

Lauren Groff

Recommends the jewels among her preferred novels and short stories

A Family Affair

Boy Meets Boy

M.I.5’s Storyteller

Eric Roberts’s biographer unearths a short story written by the W.W. II spy

Jamie Lee Curtis

Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions

The Spy Who Loved Britain

Out of Office

A new look at Andrew Johnson’s impeachment reveals the buried truth behind the long-forgotten trial, and the eerie parallels to today’s proceedings

Rootless Metropolitan

A foreign correspondent retraces E. B. White’s 1949 love letter to the city he left, Here Is New York