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Style and Substance

Dear Abigail

Death by Committee?

A Lighthouse of One’s Own

Read and Be Merry

The Way Things Were

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

Murder, They Wrote

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

All the Rage

The Family Jewels

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

The Wandering Jews

On Shirley Hazzard

Rock the Boat

Cyber Castoffs

A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten

Putin’s Provocateurs

Re-Inventing His Spiel

The Radcliffe Five

Murder, They Wrote

Call Him “Mr. President”

Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace

Death in London

Seeing Double

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

Old Bones, New Tricks

Open Sesame