Neil deGrasse Tyson
The astrophysicist and author on the last books he picked up, and the one he couldn’t finish
Genius Loves Company
The author of the first account of Einstein’s British entanglement unveils the physicist’s unlikely
English-countryside hosts
Piece of Her Heart
Janis Joplin’s biographer reveals the staunch seriousness behind the singer’s free-spirited front
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
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
Natasha Stagg
The young author who has her finger on the pulse of the new New York
Jenny Slate
On the sharpest female voices, from the 1940s
to the present
When Hawthorne Met Melville
Reliving the walk in the Berkshires that changed literary history—and perhaps kindled a great romance
Murder, They Wrote
Three new mysteries
Lauren Groff
Recommends the jewels among her preferred novels and short stories
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
Jamie Lee Curtis
Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions
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
