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Arts and Drafts

Five years after leaving New York magazine, Adam Moss discusses the state of media today, how he fills his days, and his new book about art

Rushdie’s Triumph

Breeds Apart

From Anthem to Elegy

Six gifted young poets signed up to fight in World War I. In their disillusionment, Michael Korda sees a cautionary tale for our time

Cool-Head Larry

In an interview, Larry David covers all things baldness—transplants, Russian leaders, beards—and reveals the one thing he enjoys about having no hair

On the Scent

Tracking down the essential oils that become perfumes took one fragrance aficionado to far-flung places, from Bulgarian rose fields to Somalian mountains

Magical Mystery War

Mandatory Reporting

High Life, Low Life

In his new book, the photographer Dafydd Jones captures a bygone New York, an era of new and old money, La Grenouille and Le Cirque

Russia, China, and Us

Playing Hardball

Separating the man from the myth of Pete Rose, one of baseball’s most fabled—and controversial—stars

French Dispatch

Writing to Survive

Murder, They Wrote

The settings for this month’s best mystery books range from the Las Vegas underworld to cosseted suburban London

Radio Control

Renaissance Women

A new book spotlights four forgotten female writers who were contemporaries of Shakespeare’s but cut out of history

Lost and Found

Around the World with Steve McCurry

Refugee camps in Pakistan, civil wars in Cambodia, religious ceremonies in India … A new book collects more than 100 images by the American photojournalist

Love and Let Die

A Publisher of One’s Own

For 25 years, Persephone Books has been turning the works of forgotten female writers into unexpected best-sellers

From the Metropol Hotel to Hollywood

In an interview, Amor Towles discusses adapting A Gentleman in Moscow for the screen and the inspiration behind his newest book, Table for Two

Finding Gaudí

How the playful details of Antoni Gaudí’s architecture turned one critic into an admirer

Behind Enemy Lines

The Refugee’s Storyteller