Novels for the Quarantine
The season’s must-read fiction, from Hilary Mantel’s final Cromwell volume to Lawrence Wright’s book about a killer virus taking over the world. Yes, you read that right.
Casey Cep
Harper Lee’s biographer recommends the most revolutionary books in the genre
Murder Is Her Muse
Writer Sarah Phelps is shocking Agatha Christie purists—and re-inventing the genre
The Little Old Lady Who Enjoyed Murdering People
After Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the world’s most widely published author
Nothing to See Here
The author of a new biography on the Dalai Lama demystifies the leader’s unassuming stoicism
It Takes One to Know One
The author of a biography of Dave Brubeck on the jazz pianist’s little-known friendship with bebop sensation Charlie Parker
Mark Morris
When one of the most influential choreographers alive today has a minute to himself, he reads
Bohemian Rhapsody
Photographs of Andy Warhol, Loulou de la Falaise, and Marisa Berenson capture the birth of 60s cool
The Leaning Towers of Deutsche
The author of a new book exposes the widespread, historic corruption fueling the German bank’s downfall
Alexandra Fuller
The African-born writer recommends books that depict the complex brutality of colonialism
