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In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
Allen Bratton’s novel transforms the rise of Henry V into a contemporary story about a brash gay man grappling with abuse and guilt.
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.
Tracing his path from homelessness to proud parenthood, the writer Carvell Wallace recounts a lifetime of joy and pain in his intimate memoir.
In “Chasing Hope,” the veteran Times journalist remembers the highs and lows of his storied career.
In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument or ideas.
In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.
The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.
A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.
As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.
In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.
As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”
An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.
In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.
In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.
Barbara Kingsolver’s debut, and a bad seed’s beginnings.
An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.
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