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Jason Zengerle says Tucker Carlson is more 'movement leader' than media persona

Author was struck by story of mixed-race orphans behind 'Keeper of Lost Children'

A psychoanalyst and a priest share insights in 'Love's Labor' and 'Work in Progress'

Reshona Landfair, formerly 'Jane Doe,' recounts abuse by R. Kelly in new memoir

'The Renovation' is a novel with a surrealist take on prison structures big and small

'Fly, Wild Swans' weaves Jung Chang’s family history with the history of China

Writer Jung Chang discusses her new memoir, Fly Wild Swans, which serves as a sequel to her international bestseller and a tribute to her late mother. The conversation centers on the personal cost of Chang’s historical truth-telling, specifically her biography of Mao Zedong that led to her exile from China. Chang detai...

'Clutch' follows a college friend group trying to maintain their bond in midlife

Brush up on American history with 'Common Sense' and 'We the People'

In 'Eradication,' a grieving man sets off to a remote island to save the world

Gisèle Pelicot’s 'A Hymn to Life' is both a memoir and an act of ultimate defiance

'Crux' is a novel about rock climbing, but risk exists far beyond the mountain’s edge

After 100 years of Mount Rushmore, its biographer says the landmark is incomplete

'Football' and 'Everybody Loses' examine changes to America’s most popular sport

A new book focuses on a queer, Black, WWII-era translator who risked safety for love

George Saunders' 'Vigil' is a ghostly novel about an oil tycoon in his final hours

Gov. Josh Shapiro emphasizes civic engagement in new memoir 'Where We Keep the Light'

In 'Room 706,' a woman confronts her extramarital affair during a hostage crisis

Two new books take on lesser-known chapters of WWII and Cold War-era Black history

A woman takes over her dead sister’s dating profile in 'Dandelion is Dead'

'How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder' is a dark new novel about sisterhood