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A collage of book covers about dynasties, wealth and succession includes Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan, Empire of Pain, I’ll Take the Fire, Medici Money, The House of Gucci and Jackie as Editor.

Nine Dynastic Sagas That Consider the Architecture of Inherited Power

Spanning Renaissance Florence, Jackie Onassis's Manhattan and 1990s Morocco, these titles trace what happens when wealth and legacy become inseparable.
By Iman Sultan
A collage of book covers includes The Gods of New York, The God of the Woods, Orange World and Other Stories, The Bee Sting, The Girls, The Motherload and String Theory, arranged at overlapping angles.

Author Amy Chozick’s Favorite Character-Driven Reads

The former New York Times reporter's eclectic list spans everything from David Foster Wallace's tennis essays and Miranda July's viral midlife romp to murder mysteries set in luxurious locales.
By Amy Chozick
A gridded collage of book covers tilted to the left

In the Pages of These Books, Privacy Is the Ultimate Luxury

A century of fiction and reportage postulates that invisibility has always been wealth's most precious currency.
By Mercedes Ezquiaga
A collage combines angled covers of books set on or associated with the French Riviera, including Akin, Bonjour Tristesse, Tender Is the Night and The Garden of Eden.

How Literature’s Greats Saw the Côte d’Azur

By Henry Roberts
A diagonal collage of overlapping book covers includes Switch, Dopamine Nation, The Myth of Sisyphus, Be Useful and several other titles associated with an article about books read by influential figures in artificial intelligence.

The Books the Most Powerful People in A.I. Are Reading

By The Editors
A collage of book covers set in a grid tilted to the left

Tennis Memoirs That Go Beyond the Game

By Christa Terry
A grid of eight memoir covers tilted to the left

Great American Memoirs Worth Returning To

By Nathan Smith

Author Alexa Yasemin Brahme’s Best Books to Read When You Don’t Know What the Hell You’re Doing

By Alexa Yasemin Brahme

12 Must-Read Nonfiction Books That Are Unforgettably Feminist

By Hudson Warm
A collage of art book covers

Figures, Fantasies and Frontiers: The Art Books Shaping Summer 2025

By Megan Fox Kelly
A collage of book covers oriented in a diagonal grid

Observer’s Guide to 2025’s Best Memoirs and Biographies, From ABBA to Ono

By Nathan Smith
A collage of book covers

The Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2024

By Nathan Smith
A collage of book covers

The Best Biographies and Memoirs to Read Any Time

By Nathan Smith

The Must-Reads of 2020’s National Book Awards Shortlist

By Lauren LeBlanc
(Photo: Facebook/Oliver Sacks Foundation)

10 Books That Inspired Neurologist and Naturalist Oliver Sacks

By Sage Lazzaro
Michael Bloomberg. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)

Media Mix: Michael Bloomberg Headed Back to Run Bloomberg

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Book Review: How Fiction Works By James Wood

By Adam Begley
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