Frenemies on a canvas: modern artists and their troubled bromances
A tale of the mentor-protégé dynamic among eight male painters with outsized egos, appetites and talent
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When freedom from terror was a birthright
Lawrence Wright’s greatest-hits collection of investigative work gives authoritative insight into the war on terror
The Jungle South of the Mountain explores animal intelligence
Andrew Westoll’s story of a primatologist and his capuchins aptly describes animals’ grace and intelligence—but is unfortunately plodding and derivative
How we judge sexual assault perpetrators—and their victims
Zoe Whittall’s latest novel navigates the minefield of consent, rape and insiders turned to the outside
In News from the Red Desert, chaos rules
The real news from Kevin Patterson’s desert: it hardly matters who is right
A look at Western notions of the perfect body
This Mortal Coil takes a provocative look at the problem with medical reductionism
A neuroscientist author blinds readers with science
Jay Hosking’s Three Years With The Rat is unsettling like Paul Auster, complex like David Mitchell—and a bit unwieldy
The Muse: A novel celebrating art
Jessie Burton’s historical fiction is elevated to fine literature
Patty Hearst’s America, 40 years later
New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin finds an engrossing narrative in an old crime story
In ’Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,’ a beloved series gets a proper finale
The insanely popular wizardly tale comes to an end with a truly shape-shifting finale in a script that J.K Rowling didn’t directly pen