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Notes on Sontag

The late American writer loved to keep lists. Her biographer traces the backward arc from her viral “Camp” essay to the notes that preceded it

Murder, They Wrote

Woman of the West

Victoria’s Angel

Beauvoir Revisited

A new book offers a second take on The Second Sex

The Kids Are Alright

Librarian Chic

In September, Prestel will publish a new edition of German photographer Candida Höfer’s Libraries, featuring striking images from literary spaces across the world

A Home Called Raffles

One hotel for the ages

The Internet of Things

Brunello Cucinelli

Selects three books that ask the big questions

Christy Turlington Burns

Chooses the books that inspire her in activism and motherhood

B&N It’s Not

The woman behind Once upon a Time in Hollywood’s costumes selects her favorite L.A. bookstore

An Irishman, an American, and a Norwegian Walk into a Bar …

Gang’s Back

Beast of Burden

We’ll Always Have Paris

Ferrante Fatigue

Why Italian women un-friend the author of My Brilliant Friend

Michael Lewis

Selects three dark horses

King City

On writing Elvis in Vegas

Her Family and Other Animals

Kipling in America