Outside the Map
How George Kennan’s excellent prose opened doors for all types of writing, from war reporting to investigative work in Russia
America According to Ernest Cole
A new collection of recently uncovered photographs by the groundbreaking South African artist depicts Black American communities in the 1960s and 1970s
The Question of Violence
Hamas’s October 7 attack has made a new biography of Frantz Fanon, the formidable and incendiary theorist of decolonization, all too timely
Beyond the Friends Zone
In the 90s, Jennifer Aniston achieved the unimaginable: becoming TV’s top star and ensuring equal pay with her male colleagues. Then she became the poster child for childless women
The Mother of Invention
A new biography of Margaret Cavendish reveals how the 17th-century writer and philosopher treated her groundbreaking work like her child
Chez Karl
A look inside the many homes of Karl Lagerfeld, from Paris to Rome, Biarritz to Lake Champlain
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books range from murder in Edith Wharton’s New York to the notorious 2003 Alperton Angels cult case
Stories of Survival
A journalist chronicles present-day Lebanon’s turbulence—from the 2020 port explosion to its current financial crisis—from the perspective of women
Scaling “Mount Proust”
After reading all 3,200 pages of In Search of Lost Time, one editor explains what critics—including Cormac McCarthy—got wrong about the masterpiece
Garry Winogrand in Color
A new book collects rarely seen color work by the master of postwar American street photography, from the bustling byways of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk
Keeping It Real
How an art journalist challenged the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board—and incidentally revealed many of its secrets
On Top of the World
A new coffee-table book offers a delightful guide to Alpine travel across France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Germany
Side Effects
Neuroscientist Candace Pert’s pioneering medical research was meant to help end drug addiction. Instead, Big Pharma used it to create opioids
Soviet Sojourn
A new coffee-table book collects photographs of dachas, colorful cottages that have dotted the Russian countryside since the 18th century