Fire Island Time
A new coffee-table book looks beyond the island’s reputation as a queer summer utopia, revealing it, for the first time, as a creative hub that influenced artists from Richard Avedon to Wolfgang Tillmans
Murder, They Wrote
This month in mysteries: James Comey’s new espionage thriller and the latest installment in Anthony Horowitz’s meta-mystery series
The Duke Hunter
Andrew Lownie’s biography of the Yorks helped bring down the former Prince Andrew. With new allegations in the forthcoming U.S. paperback, the scourge of the royals is still in hot pursuit
Hail, Caesar!
Roddy McDowall came to fame with How Green Was My Valley and starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, but The Planet of the Apes is what cemented his legacy
The Spammer Becomes the Spammee
After receiving one too many fake-book-club scams, I clicked reply
Mayday!
Cambridge’s most infamous party girl tips her hat to Dafydd Jones, the society photographer whose latest book captures more than 40 years of the school’s hedonistic May Balls
Steve Jobs’s Lost Decade
After being forced out of Apple in 1985, its founder spent 12 years running a floundering start-up. A new book claims this exile set the stage for Silicon Valley’s greatest comeback story
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a history of the North Korean personality cult, a Nobel laureate’s memoir of growing up in Communist Romania, and new essays by David Sedaris
Stones on the Rocks
Over the course of 65 years, a few near divorces, and several drug busts, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’s creative partnership remains—however improbably—one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most enduring
Mother Knows Best
Gerald Tsai Jr. revolutionized Wall Street and put Fidelity on the map with the help of one unlikely adviser—his mother, Ruth, the first woman to trade on the floor of the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a fresh look at Mary Todd Lincoln, the real story of Rome’s gladiators, and a narrative examination of the Murdaugh murders
Shred It!
A new coffee-table book traces the unlikely rise of British skateboarding, beginning in the 1980s, when the sport found its own rainy, grungy identity far from its Californian roots
Stable Work
What my dead-end internship at a mediocre Saratoga Springs restaurant taught me about horse racing—and the food-service industry
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a reckoning with the greatest atrocity of the Russo-Ukrainian war, a survey of gold’s role in history, and an investigation into the afterlife of Adolf Hitler’s death
Where Bob Dylan Met the Beatles
From the Savoy in London to an airport hotel in Queens, the little-known story of the rooms where the musical giants forged a surprisingly close bond
To Italy with Love
A new coffee-table book offers a visual antidote to the country’s overtourism crisis, capturing its most untouched corners through the eyes of local photographers
“The Netflix Strike”
How the streaming revolution upended Hollywood, sparked the 2023 W.G.A. strike, and made Netflix executive Ted Sarandos a key power broker
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss an oral history of New York’s biggest films, an illustrated guide to its pickles, and a portrait of its transformation during World War II
The Secret Life of Kurt Vonnegut
A new coffee-table book reveals the satirist as a visual artist, collecting 150 whimsical doodles that his daughter Nanette, who also writes the introduction, kept private for decades
Lena Dunham Reveals All
In her new memoir, Famesick, the actor-writer-director revisits the awful men (Jack Antonoff, Adam Driver), the difficult women (her business partner, her mother), and the social-media flaying that almost destroyed her
