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Rebels with a Cause

A Big, Small Life

Doors Wide Open

A new volume celebrates New York City’s charming independent-bookstore scene

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recommends the best books on climate change

School of Thought

Wright, Wronged

Frank Lloyd Wright’s biographer seeks to understand the architect through the gruesome crime he wasn’t home for

Short List

Hello, Darkness

Short List

Smyth on Smith

Nasty Business

A Higher Power

A new biography offers a look into the diary of Israel’s founder

Jacqueline Woodson

Selects three of this year’s best novels

Long Story Short

Wondering Eye

François Halard’s photography gets inside the homes and studios—and aesthetic experiences—of artists

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Inspectors About Town

Lara’s Song

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

The Longest Day

Top Shop

The author, whose new book is out this fall, selects his favorite Scottish bookshop

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block