In Cold Blood: A Why-Dunnit
A closer reading reveals a theory about Truman Capote’s attraction to the story—and the killers
Roth Unbound
“He could love and hate and rage with the best of them”: a close friend of Philip Roth’s remembers the enigmatic writer
Study in Scarlet
A first look at Joe McCarthy’s just opened archive casts the infamous senator as a precursor to Trump
All That Jazz
A visual history traces the genre from its 19th-century roots in blues-and-ragtime New Orleans to the present day
The Way Things Were
A look back at the debauched inner workings of 80s-era Oxford social life
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 Family Jewels
A writer’s secret history spans a century, two world wars, and countless precious artworks
Cyber Castoffs
A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten
