Jenny Slate
On the sharpest female voices, from the 1940s
to the present
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
Piece of Her Heart
Janis Joplin’s biographer reveals the staunch seriousness behind the singer’s free-spirited front
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The astrophysicist and author on the last books he picked up, and the one he couldn’t finish
Medieval Plastic
Robert Harris’s new novel is set after modern civilization collapses and the world reverts to the Dark Ages
Genius Loves Company
The author of the first account of Einstein’s British entanglement unveils the physicist’s unlikely
English-countryside hosts
Anthony Horowitz
On the most intriguing—and enduring—fiction
Postcard from the Alps
With fall comes winter planning: a new cookbook features photographs of Europe’s snowy peaks, and food to match
A Room of Their Own
A 1920s note from Vita to Virginia is an exercise in reassuring a lover
Deborah Berke
On the books that unite literature and architecture
The Last Queen of France
Marie Antoinette’s biographer on her secret plot to stop the Revolution, and what history got wrong about the monarch
