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Death by Committee?

A Lighthouse of One’s Own

Murder, They Wrote

The Way Things Were

A look back at the debauched inner workings of 80s-era Oxford social life

Read and Be Merry

Life Under Mao

Wild Nights—Wild Life!

She wanted to make her family proud, and she wanted to be famous: Emily Dickinson’s biographer reveals the poet’s fiery character

The Wandering Jews

The Family Jewels

A writer’s secret history spans a century, two world wars, and countless precious artworks

All the Rage

On Shirley Hazzard

Putin’s Provocateurs

Rock the Boat

Cyber Castoffs

A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten

Re-Inventing His Spiel

Murder, They Wrote

The Radcliffe Five

Call Him “Mr. President”

Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace

Death in London

Old Bones, New Tricks

Open Sesame

Seeing Double

How a doppelgänger foiled a secret Nazi plot to shoot a plane carrying precious cargo out of the sky

Commune of the Flies

Six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months. It turned out very differently than William Golding’s terrifying novel

Working Girl

After Ari, Jackie O spent 20 years in book publishing. A friend of hers remembers that largely overlooked time