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A Warlord’s Memoir Is Surprisingly Modern and Charming, When It’s Not Gruesome

Simon Han’s ‘Nights When Nothing Happened’ is a poignant study of the immigrant experience

Love suspense? Here are 5 new thrillers that will have you on the edge of your seat.

‘Dolly Parton, Songteller’ is a gold mine of little-seen photos and personal anecdotes

A Peek at the Variety, Wonder and Trauma of Black Life, Then and Now

‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past

Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2020

Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices

Gift Books for Children (That Adults Will Also Love)

Crisscrossing the Country on Highways Big and Small

11 New Books We Recommend This Week

For Ted Kennedy, dysfunction and heartbreak were a prelude to greatness

A rabbi’s final call for a commitment to the common good

A journey across America to explore the heart of the Latinx community

How the legacy of colonialism shaped the last global Ebola epidemic

Claudia Rankine Wishes More Writers Thought About Whiteness

Penguin Random House is buying Simon & Schuster. That’s bad for readers.

In “This Is Your Time,” Ruby Bridges Urges a New Generation to Keep Fighting

New in Paperback: ‘Invisible Americans’ and ‘Hunter’s Moon’

Walt Whitman, Parenting Books and Other Letters to the Editor

Assaults and Occupations in Wartime

A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea

What if There Were a Worst-Seller List?

‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to Zadie Smith

Penguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster

Thanksgiving is a time to grieve, read and remember. Two new books capture the mood.

Which books make the best gifts? Authors weigh in.

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

7 New Books to Watch For in December

Why Harry Truman Matters Today

We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead.

Michael J. Fox mixes candor, humor and hope in his heartfelt new memoir

President Obama’s reading list

Author Jason Reynolds: Racism hasn’t changed ‘because we still haven’t talked about it’

Facts, just the facts: My 10-year-old has reminded me of the allure of the almanac

‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection

‘The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams,’ by David S. Brown: An Excerpt

Three New Books That Stare Up at the Stars

Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family

Studies of Darkness and Disguise at the Movies

The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty

In a Gentrifying Seattle, a Queer Activist Works to Blur Borders

New & Noteworthy Poetry, From Eavan Boland to the African-American Canon

Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War

Zeyn Joukhadar’s ‘The Thirty Names of Night’ is a poetic portrait of a trans man’s search for a rare bird — and his own identity

The 10 Best Books of 2020

A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd

Jan Morris, a Distinctive Guide Who Took Readers Around the World

An Eco-Fable From the Author of ‘The Magicians’

What if Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor Had Joined Forces?