Call Him “Mr. President”
Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace
Seeing Double
How a doppelgänger foiled a secret Nazi plot to shoot a plane carrying precious cargo out of the sky
Working Girl
After Ari, Jackie O spent 20 years in book publishing. A friend of hers remembers that largely overlooked time
Calder Complex
“My fan mail is enormous—everybody is under six”: on the American sculptor’s complicated relationship with his admirers
Sliding Doors
In her new novel, Curtis Sittenfeld reimagines the life of Hillary without Bill
Commune of the Flies
Six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months. It turned out very differently than William Golding’s terrifying novel
All Quiet in the Forager’s Wood
A new book of photographs takes you mushroom hunting with the great American composer John Cage
Triumph of the Willing
On the 75th anniversary of Hitler’s defeat, what can William Shirer’s epic history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, teach us about today?
Pool Party!
A new book captures the enduring allure of swimming pools
Found in Translation
How did a now forgotten masterpiece of American literature become so beloved by Italians?
Head in the Clouds
How Charlie Mackesy accidentally wrote a best-seller and became a social-media sensation in his 50s
