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Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

Top Shop

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

Inspectors About Town

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

The Longest Day

Lara’s Song

Fool’s Gold

All Modern Women Are Jealous

Tangier Style

A new book, out in September, features photographs of the Moroccan coastal city’s picturesque homes and gardens

News from the Front

Olivia Laing

On the books that cure her writer’s block

The Polish Canon

A Portrait of the Surrealists

Jared Harris

Shares the standouts on his bookshelf

In the Money

Point to Point

Gurinder Chadha

On the memoirs that altered her worldview

Lethal Attraction

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