Malcolm Mackay
On the crime fiction that never gets old
A Better Billionaire
On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg
The Literary Industrial Complex
Italy has more book festivals than it has books
Olivia Laing
On the books that cure her writer’s block
Tangier Style
A new book, out in September, features photographs of the Moroccan coastal city’s picturesque homes and gardens
Jared Harris
Shares the standouts on his bookshelf
Gurinder Chadha
On the memoirs that altered her worldview
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
Beauvoir Revisited
A new book offers a second take on The Second Sex
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
