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In 'The Covenant of Water,' Abraham Verghese traces an Indian family's drowning curse

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Jamie Loftus' 'Raw Dog' investigates the social and culinary history of the hot dog

Henry Winkler and Arnold Schwarzenegger's memoirs open up about the fear of failing

Max Brooks teaches kids life lessons through the world of 'Minecraft'

Curtis Chin's memoir pays homage to his family's Chinese restaurant

'The Liberators' details the lives of Korean-Americans grappling with the war

Barbra Streisand's memoir looks back on a groundbreaking career

In 'Thicker Than Water,' Kerry Washington processes a family secret

What it's like to write the biographies of Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried

In 'Let Us Descend,' Jesmyn Ward harnesses the spirituality of an enslaved woman

In 'A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens,' debt takes on many meanings

In 'Differ We Must,' NPR's Steve Inskeep examines Abraham Lincoln's disagreements

'The Coming Wave' and 'Artificial' offer different perspectives on AI

In 'The List,' an allegation of sexual misconduct wreaks havoc on a relationship

'The House of Doors' is a novel about romance, secrecy and colonialism in Malaysia

In 'Sparks,' Ian Johnson highlights China's 'grassroots historians'

China's underground historians and their efforts to preserve authentic narratives are examined, challenging the notion of a completely dystopian surveillance state. Despite increasing restrictions under Xi Jinping, a grassroots movement persists, driven by digital technologies like email and PDFs, to document suppresse...

Jhumpa Lahiri questions Italian identity in 'Roman Stories'

Books about Olympic rowers and J. Robert Oppenheimer re-examine American history

After three decades, John Grisham follows 'The Firm' with 'The Exchange'