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One of the most famous — and confounding — Americans of the 20th century gets an unflinching biography in Candace Fleming’s “The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh.”
Atmospheric new psychological thrillers — “The Aosawa Murders,” “Play the Red Queen” and “The Only Child” — are set in Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
Marilyn Stasio surveys the latest crime novels — and finds them decidedly stomach-churning.
For his latest project, the writer best known for “The Da Vinci Code” is turning his attention to a younger audience.
In her new memoir, “Brother & Sister,” the actor opens up about her family.
“I found Henry James almost unreadable five or six years ago, and now I love him! Who knows what I might get into next?”
An excerpt from “Real Life,” by Brandon Taylor
An excerpt from “The Man in the Red Coat,” by Julian Barnes
An excerpt from ‘The Adventurer’s Son,’ by Roman Dial
In Alexis Schaitkin’s debut, a woman tries to solve the mystery of her sister’s death on the island of “Saint X.”
In his third collection, “Living Weapon,” Rowan Ricardo Phillips invokes superheroes and hard-boiled crime to grapple with gun violence, climate change and more.
After Cody Dial disappeared, his father — the ecologist and explorer Roman Dial — set out to find him, a tale he recounts in “The Adventurer’s Son.”
In the debut novel “Real Life,” a biochemistry Ph.D. candidate confronts the harder lessons of how to be a gay black man in a white world.
William T. Vollmann’s novel “The Lucky Star,” part of his “transgender trilogy,” is fixated on femininity and the ways it is performed.
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “Whistleblower,” Susan Fowler, a former software engineer at Uber, describes the harassment she endured while working at the company.
Mayors’ offices, city councils and Congress are flooded with young people. In “The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For,” Charlotte Alter explains why.
Max Hastings’s “Operation Chastise” takes a close look at one of the most famous episodes of the war.
“Little Constructions,” by Anna Burns, features a large cast of relatives in a criminal-run Irish town during the Troubles.
In “Until the End of Time,” the best-selling physicist Brian Greene explains how the universe will dissolve and what it all meant.
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