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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

Short List

Nasty Business

Smyth on Smith

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

Top Shop

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

Lara’s Song

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Inspectors About Town

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

The Longest Day

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

Fool’s Gold

News from the Front

All Modern Women Are Jealous

Tangier Style

A new book, out in September, features photographs of the Moroccan coastal city’s picturesque homes and gardens

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block