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The Mouths of Babes

Imagine Lucy from “Peanuts” with the politics of John Lennon and you’ve got “Mafalda,” a comic strip whose millions of fans included Gabriel García Márquez

With Friends Like These …

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a provocative history of World War II atrocities, an investigation into pyramid schemes, and a foray into the ruins of Pompeii

The Missing Sister

Before #FreeBritney, there was Aimee Semple McPherson—an influential radio evangelist who fell victim to an abusive conservatorship

The Geography of Hope

The Pathological Ironist

Percival Everett, whose novel James won the Pulitzer Prize this month, talks Trump, Twain, and fighting darkness with humor

Getting Lit

Literary salons are making a comeback in London, where live readings—complete with D.J.’s—are eclipsing nightclubs

The G-Man Writes Again

Former F.B.I. director James Comey on working for George W. Bush and Barack Obama; advice for the current director, Kash Patel; and the art of his second act: writing thrillers

Hollywood in Bloom

From Come September to Love in the Afternoon, a look at the film industry’s most memorable celebrations of spring

Doing as the Romans Do

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a new boxed set of Jane Austen’s novels, an account of the fabled 1917 sighting of the Virgin Mary in Portugal, and a portrait of the Roman poet Horace

Should Warhol Be Canned?

The Man Behind the Mustache

Ron Chernow discusses adapting his Hamilton biography into the hit musical, how to cure writer’s block, and the complicated, thrilling subject of his latest book: Mark Twain

Eighties Mania!

From the eruption of Mount Saint Helens to the rise of Madonna, Indira Gandhi’s assassination, and shoulder pads, two new books capture the bold, anarchic spirit of the decade

The Mean Girls Next Door

How Tina Fey turned a self-help manual for anxious mothers into the quintessential teen movie of the early aughts

The People’s Mother

From McDonald’s to Disneyland, mums’ races, and school drop-offs, no aspect of Princess Diana’s identity was more heavily scrutinized than her role as a mother to William and Harry

The Writer and the Spy

How a journalist and a god-fearing F.B.I. agent partnered up to tell the true story of going undercover in America’s most dangerous neo-Nazi group

Hail, Caesars!

Deadly Pleasures to Watch and Read

A new book and high-profile TV series paying tribute to Agatha Christie, and more

Frank Fournier’s New York

A portfolio of the French photographer’s 1970s Technicolor pictures hearkens back to a city steeped in danger, decay, and unbridled creative freedom

A Mobster’s Mensch

Died, Beheaded, Survived

Ireland’s Literary Femme Fatale

The James Bond producer remembers Edna O’Brien, the pioneering writer whose books were once banned for their depictions of female sexuality

An Ode to the Humble Paperback

From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Bright Lights, Big City to A Little Life, books that were better the next time around