Pamela Druckerman — horrified when waiters began calling her “madame,” not “mademoiselle” — has written a book about women and middle age, “There Are No Grown-Ups.”
The paleontologist Steve Brusatte’s “The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs” offers a narrative history of the ancient animals that used to rule the earth.
Part travelogue, part archaeological study, Craig Childs’s “Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America” reads like a docudrama — and doesn’t reflect reality.
A love story between a black Army nurse and a German POW during World War II? You couldn't make that story up — and Alexis Clark, author of the upcoming book, Enemies in Love, didn't.
After being drawn into the world of human trafficking, two Indian girls encounter relentless cruelty at home and abroad in Shobha Rao’s novel, “Girls Burn Brighter.”
Roma Tearne’s “Brixton Beach,” a multigenerational family story, touches on sectarian strife in Sri Lanka and the nostalgia that comes after leaving home.
Michio Kaku goes long in his new book, “The Future of Humanity,” imagining the frontiers of possibility. Given enough time, he says, we might become as the gods.