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A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “The 99% Invisible City,” Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt delve into the everyday features of urban life that we take for granted.
The new book by the Australian writer Chloe Hooper recreates the events surrounding a lethal 2009 fire in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
An excerpt from “War: How Conflict Shaped Us,” by Margaret MacMillan
An excerpt from “The Zealot and the Emancipator,” by H.W. Brands
An excerpt from “Earthlings,” by Sayaka Murata
In her new collection of personal essays, “Nothing Like I Imagined,” the actor and TV producer balances single parenthood with a singular career.
In “The Tangled Web We Weave,” James Ball looks to the structure of the internet and the history of its growth as the deeper sources of our current problems.
David Michaelis’s “Eleanor” describes an unstoppable force who had a profound effect on American politics.
In “The Lenin Plot” Barnes Carr tells the mostly unknown story of America’s intervention in the earliest days of the Soviet Union.
In a new biography, “Mad at the World,” William Souder claims the “Of Mice and Men” author was motivated by anger toward injustice.
Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” analyzes the social and political impact of Covid-19.
Joe Klein reviews that book, Carlos Lozada’s “What Were We Thinking,” as well as two Washington Post journalists’ account of the impeachment and its aftermath.
In “Leave the World Behind,” Rumaan Alam imagines what happens when homeowners interrupt their renters’ idyll to seek refuge from a crisis.
In “The Blessing and the Curse,” the critic Adam Kirsch offers a literary survey covering the last 100 years of Jewish history.
H.W. Brands’s “The Zealot and the Emancipator” looks at how two opponents of slavery chose very different paths to abolition.
In this debut novel set on the river that separates Cleveland from Ohio City, an orphan builds a mythology around his big brother.
Her new novel, “Earthlings,” asks: If you don’t belong in the “Baby Factory,” do you even belong on Earth?
Two books, Philip H. Gordon’s “Losing the Long Game” and Charles A. Kupchan’s “Isolationism,” offer suggestions to avoid the mistakes of the past.
In “War: How Conflict Shaped Us,” Margaret MacMillan examines the impact of war, both bad and good.
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