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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

Making Light Work

Dear Abigail

Death by Committee?

A Lighthouse of One’s Own

The Way Things Were

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

Read and Be Merry

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

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

Cyber Castoffs

A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten

Putin’s Provocateurs

Rock the Boat

Murder, They Wrote

Call Him “Mr. President”

Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace

The Radcliffe Five

Re-Inventing His Spiel

Death in London

Open Sesame