In “Looking for the Good War,” the West Point scholar Elizabeth D. Samet argues that an idealized narrative of America’s actions in World War II has colored our beliefs about warfare in detrimental ways.
Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like These” uncovers the Catholic Church’s centuries-long conspiracy to imprison, abuse and even murder “fallen women” and their children.
Rachel Kapelke-Dale’s debut novel, “The Ballerinas,” set in the hothouse world of a Paris ballet academy, follows three dancers hiding a very big secret.
The legendary illustrator has written a memoir, which tells the story of his Bronx youth through a varied career at the center of the New York media world.
Machine learning programs have recently made huge advances. Stephen Marche tested one against Shakespeare’s collected works, to see if it could help him figure out which of the several versions of Hamlet’s soliloquy was most likely what the playwright intended.
