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Of Mings and Men

Catch Him if You Can

Between Hitler and Madness

Buddy Movies

Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby were one of Hollywood’s great creative teams. Their unraveling left insiders mystified

Short List

What to read this week, including a look back at home ec, a blow-by-blow of the Watergate scandal, and a history of Oceania

Murder, They Wrote

Chicks Ahoy!

When in Rome …

The Techno King of Tesla

Elon Musk may dislike being C.E.O. of the car company, but he wants to remain in power

Tears in Heaven

The George Harrison–Pattie Boyd–Eric Clapton love triangle is one for the ages. But were Boyd and Clapton doomed from the start?

Love in the Time of Márquez

The Undoing

Oedipus Complex

Inside the mind of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the Upper East Side golden boy who killed his own father

India’s Lost Worlds

The Money Shot

Scottish photographer Albert Watson reveals the stories behind his best work

Short List

What to read in the coming weeks, from memoirs exploring masculinity and the cutthroat world of ballet to a look at the history and future of motion

WASP’s Nest

Terrified by the distinctly WASP-ish hell of lacking a life’s purpose, Cold War columnist Joe Alsop created a setting for his self-protective, civic-humanist fantasy

It’s Complicated

The revolutionary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won the hearts of everyone from Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger to Joseph Goebbels and Roger Ailes

A Victorian Ted Bundy

Safe Mode

The authors of a new book on the history of quarantines think they’re here to stay

Off the Mark

Here Is New York

Douglas Corrance’s colorful photographs recall summers in 1970s and 1980s New York

Two More Trump Books

A (Truly) Perfect Spy