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William P. Barr’s Memoir Is Part Lawyerly Defense, Part Culture-War Diatribe

When Her Husband Said He Wanted to Die, Amy Bloom Listened

Foxes, Lawyers and Londoners

An Essayist Navigates the Labyrinth of American Health Care. Barely.

6 Books to Read for Context on Ukraine

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The Invention of the Index

Newly Published, From Putin’s Russia to Pinball

A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About

Westerners Who Supported Indian Independence

New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’

Lisa Gardner, the Thriller Writer Who Loves Historical Romance

From Thriller to Fantasy to Horror, the Genre Series Is the Cash Cow

‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius

How Donald Trump Captured the Republican Party

How Much Power Does the Federal Reserve Have?

Roddy Doyle’s Stories of Life in Lockdown

Peering Into the Brutal, Beautiful World of Tide Pools

How a Death-Row Inmate’s Embrace of Conservatism Led to His Release

God, Art and Death in the Same (Very Long) Sentence

In Margaret Atwood’s Essays and Speeches, Some Hazards of the Trade

‘Watergate: A New History,’ by Garrett M. Graff: An Excerpt

The Problem With the Pandemic Plot

Ambitions and Emotions Run Hot in ‘The Founders,’ a History of PayPal

New International Fiction, From Ecuador to Zimbabwe

New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’

Winged Victories: 2 Picture Books Take Flight

12 New Books We Recommend This Week

The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord

A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years.

P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition

Publishing C.E.O. Donates $500,000 to Fight Book Bans

An Immersive History of Mixed-Descent Native Families

P.J. O’Rourke, Conservative Political Satirist, Dies at 74

‘Heiresses’ Adds Up the Melancholy and Danger of Inherited Wealth

‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry

A Lincoln for Our Polarized Times

A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Will We Ever Understand Addiction?

Sheila Heti Rewrites the Creation of the Universe

Marlon James’s Moon Witch Tells Her Side of a Haunting Story

An 8-Year-Old Street Child Is Killed, and a World Opens Up

What Happens When a Striving Ingénue Gets Mixed Up With an Older Man?

Zoology and Org Charts

Radicals Used to Make Change. Then Social Media Happened.

Reality Stars Are Just Like Us

New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’

Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool

The Best-Seller List Has Some Regrets, and That’s OK

She Wasn’t on PCP, but Her Own Body Made Her Hallucinate