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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.

All Good Things …

Murder Is Her Muse

Writer Sarah Phelps is shocking Agatha Christie purists—and re-inventing the genre

Allies on Wheels

Casey Cep

Harper Lee’s biographer recommends the most revolutionary books in the genre

Nothing to See Here

The author of a new biography on the Dalai Lama demystifies the leader’s unassuming stoicism

The Little Old Lady Who Enjoyed Murdering People

After Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the world’s most widely published author

Talk of the Town

Murder, They Wrote

The Roaring Writers

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

Old Head, Young Shoulders

Wonder Woman

Last Laugh

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Bohemian Rhapsody

Photographs of Andy Warhol, Loulou de la Falaise, and Marisa Berenson capture the birth of 60s cool

Mark Morris

When one of the most influential choreographers alive today has a minute to himself, he reads

Enemies’ Enemies

Alexandra Fuller

The African-born writer recommends books that depict the complex brutality of colonialism

The Leaning Towers of Deutsche

The author of a new book exposes the widespread, historic corruption fueling the German bank’s downfall

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Churchill

To the Extreme

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