Anthony Doerr
Shares the essential titles on his bookshelf
Man of Letters
A new collection of Ralph Ellison’s correspondence sheds light on the life of the writer, including the
first books that influenced him
Kane, Eve, and Cleopatra
The author of a new book on the Mankiewicz brothers reckons with an especially timely concern: Were her subjects predatory monsters?
Jackie’s Russian Collusion
A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev was among the last she’d send from the White House
Murder, They Wrote
Three new mysteries
Food for Thought
This Land is Their Land offers a true account of the First Thanksgiving. Its author illustrates the violent history behind today’s myth
Jesse Eisenberg
Recommends four contemporary plays
Horse Sense
A new book offers a playful antidote to uncertain times, from the British illustrator whose past collaborations with Richard Curtis and Nelson Mandela are a testament to the wide-ranging charm of his work
Rootless Metropolitan
A foreign correspondent retraces E. B. White’s 1949 love letter to the city he left, Here Is New York
Out of Office
A new look at Andrew Johnson’s impeachment reveals the buried truth behind the long-forgotten trial, and the eerie parallels to today’s proceedings
M.I.5’s Storyteller
Eric Roberts’s biographer unearths a short story written by the W.W. II spy
Jamie Lee Curtis
Recommends the books that reckon with life’s big questions
Bowie’s Top 100
Before he died, David Bowie published a list of books that changed his life. A new volume parses through all 100 titles, including a little-remembered 1842 novel
