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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

The Polish Canon

Jared Harris

Shares the standouts on his bookshelf

In the Money

Point to Point

A Portrait of the Surrealists

Gurinder Chadha

On the memoirs that altered her worldview

Lethal Attraction