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He Wore Blue Velvet Kyle MacLachlan’s new memoir, Fictional Selves, is part career retrospective, part autobiography, part love letter to David Lynch, his mentor and most important collaborator

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The Earl Making the Royals Squirm Charles Spencer’s new memoir of his sister, Princess Diana, serves up a royal rogues’ gallery—from King Charles’s alleged elation at her death to tales of a light-fingered Prince Philip


Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss Simon Sebag Montefiore’s timely history of the modern Middle East, the Madeline author’s madcap 1952 memoir, and a publishing powerhouse’s ode to editing

From Russia with Likes As Cold War–style propaganda becomes less effective, the Kremlin is getting its message out the 21st-century way: via online influencers

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Schmuck You Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel’s new memoir, Roll the Calls, chronicles his relentless empire-building but is conspicuously lacking in self-reflection

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Murder, They Wrote A new Martini Club adventure! The wisecracking Detective Miller returns! This month, our mystery columnist makes the case for the crime-fiction series

Funny Faces Mel Brooks, Larry David, Diane Keaton … A new coffee-table book offers an inside look at the comedy world through behind-the-scenes photographs by Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin


Invisible Men Marlon James’s Booker-long-listed novel confronts a brutal act of violence against a group of gay men in 1980s Jamaica

The Fashion Photographer Who Wasn’t An exhibition in Paris examines Irving Penn’s profound influence on the genre he never quite claimed as his own

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Paris Won’t Wait The French way of doing things: the clothes, objects, and small rituals that make Paris feel less like a destination and more like a standard

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To Catch a Murderer In 1973, Cynthia Bouron, a notorious Hollywood hanger-on who publicly alleged that Cary Grant fathered her child, was brutally killed. Why has the case remained unsolved?

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