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Bollywood Ending

Murder, They Wrote

Three new mysteries

Ann Patchett

Recommends three of this year’s best books

Myth Buster

Maaza Mengiste writes the alternate history of Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia

The Spy Who’s Still Out in the Cold

Short List

Hello, Darkness

Wright, Wronged

Frank Lloyd Wright’s biographer seeks to understand the architect through the gruesome crime he wasn’t home for

Rebels with a Cause

A Big, Small Life

Doors Wide Open

A new volume celebrates New York City’s charming independent-bookstore scene

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recommends the best books on climate change

School of Thought

A Higher Power

A new biography offers a look into the diary of Israel’s founder

Jacqueline Woodson

Selects three of this year’s best novels

Long Story Short

Wondering Eye

François Halard’s photography gets inside the homes and studios—and aesthetic experiences—of artists

Smyth on Smith

Short List

Nasty Business

Top Shop

The author, whose new book is out this fall, selects his favorite Scottish bookshop

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Lara’s Song