The new biography, by Julia Sweig, shows the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson to have been ahead of her time (and possibly her husband) on women’s rights, racial disparities and other issues.
The author’s forceful new collection, “Festival Days,” features characters, mostly drawn from life, often confronting illness, loss, violence and death.
In “Plunder,” a memoir by Menachem Kaiser, the author tries to repossess a building owned by his grandfather before the war and discovers a history he knew nothing about.
In her Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at two graphic works for young people, including the Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Lost Soul.”
