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
Daydreams
A new collection of photographs by the actor and filmmaker, most of which have never before been published, takes you back to the 60s
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
Lauren Groff
Recommends the jewels among her preferred novels and short stories
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
Jenny Slate
On the sharpest female voices, from the 1940s
to the present
Piece of Her Heart
Janis Joplin’s biographer reveals the staunch seriousness behind the singer’s free-spirited front
Natasha Stagg
The young author who has her finger on the pulse of the new New York
Murder, They Wrote
Three new mysteries
When Hawthorne Met Melville
Reliving the walk in the Berkshires that changed literary history—and perhaps kindled a great romance
People-Mapping
A new book offers fascinating stats—from Viking raids to the countries living sans McDonald’s—through the lens of the world map
