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Loyalty spurred the best-selling author to visit a neuroscientist’s lab. What she saw there inspired her next narrator.
“Just tell me who did it.”
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park explores books capturing Kirby’s life and work, including a new biography by Tom Scioli.
Isaiah Dunn has a superhero alter ego who gets his powers from eating beans and rice. Nnamdi is transformed by his anger into a seven-foot-tall hulk.
Alex Ross’s “Wagnerism” is “a book about a musician’s influence on non-musicians — resonances and reverberations of one art form into others.” Reviewed by John Adams.
Two new memoirs, Alicia Elliott’s “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” and Toni Jensen’s “Carry,” sketch harrowing portraits of Native life today.
In “A Traitor to His Species,” Ernest Freeberg tells the story of Henry Bergh, the 19th-century eccentric who founded the A.S.P.C.A.
“Silence Is My Mother Tongue” witnesses a young brother and sister coming of age in a Sudanese refugee camp.
An excerpt from “Agent Sonya,” by Ben Macintyre
An excerpt from “The Abstainer,” by Ian McGuire
Vigdis Hjorth’s “Long Live the Post Horn!” follows a 35-year-old woman through an identity crisis — and a campaign in support of postal workers.
“The Wake-Up Call,” by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, criticizes the performance of Western governments and suggests ways to improve it.
Daniel Yergin’s “The New Map” is a comprehensive look at the world of energy, its past, present and future.
In “If Then,” the historian Jill Lepore recounts the story of the Simulmatics Corporation, which tried to use primitive computing power to shape Americans’ behavior.
Ian McGuire’s historical novel “The Abstainer” pits an Irish separatist against a police constable in 19th-century England.
“Who Gets In and Why” and “Unacceptable” detail how admissions is rigged in favor of the privileged and how it was gamed even further.
Ilia Calderón (“My Time to Speak”) and Maria Hinojosa (“Once I Was You”) tell different stories with a common theme: the need for a deeper, more nuanced conversation about race.
David Nasaw’s “The Last Million” tells the painful story of displaced persons after World War II who had nowhere to go.
Michael J. Sandel’s “The Tyranny of Merit” examines the damage our current meritocratic system is doing to the country.
As Chris Whipple shows in “The Spymasters,” the heads of the Central Intelligence Agency have often been more beleaguered than omnipotent.
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