Staff Picks This week, don’t miss a collection of letters by writers from Beckett to Vonnegut; a history of the 13th Tour de France; and a guide to the world’s most peculiar foods
November 3, 2021
Taxi Driving An illustrated history of the New York taxicab recalls the glory days of early motorized cars and spacious Checkers
Exposing Her Weiner Huma Abedin claims she had never heard of sex addiction until her husband’s sexting scandal broke
The Lap of Luxury A new memoir reveals the late Karl Lagerfeld in all of his complexity
Jerusalem Syndrome The Christian obsession with the holy city has played a key role in creating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and remains a stumbling block to its resolution
Flipping the Godfather Script Mario Puzo was an avid gambler, novelist, and pizza eater. But there was one department where he could use some help: screenwriting
Staff Picks This week, don’t miss a history of Christians in the Middle East; the Howard brothers’ tell-all; and a memoir from the man who edited Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton
October 28, 2021
Risky Business The notorious Jazz Age madam Polly Adler played hostess to every gangster, politician, and writer of the Roaring 20s—even, she once claimed, to F.D.R.
October 28, 2021
Pfizer v. Trump Inside Pfizer’s high-stakes coronavirus-vaccine trials and Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine them
October 28, 2021
Changing His Tune Noël Coward was many things—a playwright, an actor, a filmmaker. The editor of a new collection of his writings explores another one of his talents
October 28, 2021
When Trump Trumps Logic Books on Donald Trump’s narcissism, by Michael Wolff, and financial misdeeds, by David Cay Johnston, sound a familiar alarm. Will people listen?
Dior Dreaming Accompanying an exhibition on Christian Dior at New York’s Brooklyn Museum, an elegant volume spans the many iterations of the French fashion house
The Godfather of The Godfather How Mario Puzo turned his gambling addiction and fruitful imagination into the best Mob story of all time
Faulty-Hearts Club How Baby Fae, the 1980s infant who survived for several days with a baboon heart, paved the way for innovative new approaches to organ donation
October 20, 2021
