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
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