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What Machines Want

Wave to the Camera

A new book of photos by the big kahuna of surfing photography, Jimmy Metyko, captures early-80s Southern California in all its Point Break glory

Finding Albert Ballin

How a German-Jewish businessman helped make possible the emigration of 1.5 million Jews from Eastern Europe—then largely disappeared from history

Hollywood Beginning

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel captures the actor’s mindset so incisively that Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps are early fans

The Preppy Crack-Up

Emperor of the New Order

How a promising young director gave up a comfortable life in Hollywood—and gained true creative freedom for a new generation of filmmakers. An exclusive excerpt from The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

Murder, They Wrote

Long-cold cases get hot again in the season’s best mystery books—and oldie-but-goodie TV dramas

Man’s Best Friends

For his entire career, Michael Frayn avoided writing about people he knew. His new book, written at 89, is about 13 of his closest friends

Mommy and Lee

By the Letter

A Head for Business, a Body for Sin

From Virginia Woolf to Carolee Schneemann, a new book explores the role of the female body in art

Making Up for Lost Time

After a decade-long wait, a follow-up to the best-selling debut thriller I Am Pilgrim is here

The Beatles’ Dark Horse

Across the Jillyverse

Publishing her 18th novel at 86 years old, novelist Jilly Cooper is as prolific—and ready to talk about sex—as ever

The Real Thing

Nobels “R” Us

By identifying a gap in the U.K. book market, Jacques Testard turned his kitchen-table publisher into a prizewinning literary powerhouse

Joining “the Firm”

An aspiring journalist from New Delhi gets a private tour of Kensington Palace—his new girlfriend’s childhood home

The Silent Treatment

Far from the Madding Hive Mind

Inside the UnHerd Club, London’s liveliest—and most controversial—new literary salon

Burning Bridgewater

All Roads Lead to Vergil

On the Air

An exclusive excerpt from UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There revisits the American public’s close encounter … with Orson Welles

Get the Money, Get the Power

In 1983, critics panned Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone’s remake of Scarface. A decade later it became a cult hit, thanks to the hip-hop community

Making Friends with Lincoln