The Making of Charlotte Brontë How a controversial biography of the Jane Eyre author overcame accusations of slander from the novelist’s hellish former headmaster, her critics, and even her father to establish her enduring myth
A Murder in Minneapolis Nordic author Jo Nesbø’s latest thriller, which follows a spree of killings in Minneapolis, comes as the real-life city is in upheaval
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No. 343
It’s a Vogue-Eat-Dogue World
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MAD ABOUT THE BUNNY
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THE WORST LADY
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The Curious Case of Mike Lynch A toxic culture—complete with piranha tanks and Bond-villain rooms—ran rampant at the company founded by the British tech tycoon, who died in a freak yacht accident
Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a new history of China’s path to Communism, a re-examination of the Bernie Goetz subway shooting, and McNally Editions’ reprint of a forgotten dark comedy
As I Lay Dying In his second novel following Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders tells the Dickensian story of an unrepentant industrialist on his deathbed
The Singular Power of Avedon Gabriel García Márquez, Samuel Beckett, Louise Nevelson … an exhibition in Montreal showcases the photographer’s intimate portraits of aging
