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Uncharted Territory

Murder, They Wrote

Three new mysteries

Artful Dodger

Jenny Slate

On the sharpest female voices, from the 1940s
to the present

How to Serve Man

In 1921, the Lenin-led Soviet Union faced one of the worst famines in history. A new book details its horrors and the American effort to combat cannibalism

Piece of Her Heart

Janis Joplin’s biographer reveals the staunch seriousness behind the singer’s free-spirited front

Short List

No Half Measures

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The astrophysicist and author on the last books he picked up, and the one he couldn’t finish

Genius Loves Company

The author of the first account of Einstein’s British entanglement unveils the physicist’s unlikely
English-countryside hosts

She Means (Show) Business

Under the Skin

Medieval Plastic

Robert Harris’s new novel is set after modern civilization collapses and the world reverts to the Dark Ages

Anthony Horowitz

On the most intriguing—and enduring—fiction

Short List

Once upon a Time in China

First Light

John Le Carré is dead at 89. Here, a review of his last book

The Last Queen of France

Marie Antoinette’s biographer on her secret plot to stop the Revolution, and what history got wrong about the monarch

They Publish the Perished

Thanks to New York Review Books Classics, masterpieces such as Stoner, Speedboat, and Poison Penmanship are back in print and finding new fans

Murder, They Wrote

Not Kipling’s Burma

The Deep End

Last Tango in Brandoland