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Amy Klobuchar on ‘Antitrust’

When the Other Writer in the House Is Furry and Uses a Litter Box

How the Senate’s antitrust chair would take on monopolies

A portrait of George Washington: Ambitious, meticulous, petulant, elitist

Wrestling with the complexities of music, art and reparations

In helping her daughter bloom, a mother changed perceptions of autism

A blow-by-blow history of the Obamacare wars

Sally Thorne’s ‘Second First Impressions’ is full of cracking attraction and cackling laughs

How our social networks drive disasters, from financial panics to the coronavirus

From former Soviet archives, chilling new details of the Cuban missile crisis

He’s been hailed as Rwanda’s hero. But is he really his country’s villain?

Philip Hoare’s examination of Albrecht Dürer takes readers on an entertaining, digressive ride

Chris Bohjalian’s thriller ‘Hour of the Witch’ is historical fiction at its best

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New in Paperback: ‘All Adults Here’ and ‘Fire in Paradise’

From Nigella Lawson to David Chang, Chefs Narrate the Stories Behind the Dishes

Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor

It’s a Dog’s Life — or Is It?

Jason Matthews, spy novelist who drew on his experience in the CIA, dies at 69

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

How Do You Illustrate Resilience? These Graphic Novels Show the Way.

Kicking Homer to the Curb: The American Scholar Who Upended the Classics

Olivia Laing‘s Reading Piles Are Far From Organized

Michio Kaku Says the Universe Is Simpler Than We Think

Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices

Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron is working on a book about Trump, Bezos and the future of journalism

‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ explores the full spectrum of sources that shaped the scholar’s ideas

The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same

Let’s face it, we all have the capacity to be mean. ‘Spite’ explores why that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

15 New Books to Watch For in May

‘Jackpot’ Looks at How Inequality Is Experienced by the Very, Very Rich

‘There Is a Tension There’: Publishers Draw Fire for Signing Trump Officials

Alison Bechdel’s Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors

Norton Takes Philip Roth Biography Out of Print

10 books to read in May

New & Noteworthy, From Elizabeth Warren to Life as a Black Millennial

Is There Really Such a Thing as Maternal Instinct?

When Teacups, Burning Lumps of Coal and Eggs Flew Through the Air

Jhumpa Lahiri’s New Novel Pares a Shrinking Life Down to Its Essence

Want to know the ‘Secrets of Happiness’? The characters in Joan Silber’s new novel are looking, too.

Rachel Cusk’s New Novel Turns Up the Heat at a Private Artist’s Retreat

Amy Klobuchar on Breaking Up Giant Corporations

Helen Weaver, Chronicler of an Affair With Kerouac, Dies at 89

Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War

Pet Project

Al Young, Poet With a Musical Bent, Is Dead at 81

Patrick Radden Keefe on ‘Empire of Pain’

When a Cold Case Turns Deadly