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Few political memoirs arrive with as much built-in scrutiny as a first lady’s account of the final chapter of her husband’s presidency, and Jill Biden’s View from the East Wing does not shy away from that spotlight. The memoir covers Dr. Biden’s four years as first lady, from the causes

Cape Carnage keeps a garden of secrets, and in Brynne Weaver’s Harvest Season, the second installment of the Seasons of Carnage trilogy, harvest time comes with a body count. Picking up moments after the explosive ending of Tourist Season, Harvest Season finds Nolan Rhodes and Harper Starling still tangled in

Barbara McQuade spent a career putting organized crime figures behind bars as a federal prosecutor in Detroit, most notably helping convict Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on racketeering charges. In “The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government,” she turns that same prosecutorial toolkit on Washington, arguing that the

Every astrophysicist eventually gets asked the same question at a dinner party: do you believe in aliens? Neil deGrasse Tyson has spent decades fielding that question with a scientist’s caution and a showman’s timing, and in “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter,” he finally gives

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a room when a guitarist who spent three decades avoiding the spotlight finally decides to talk. Kim Thayil, the co-founder and lead guitarist of Soundgarden, has always been the quiet architect behind one of grunge’s most towering sounds, letting Chris

If you have ever watched a room full of teenagers sit together in total silence, each one lit blue by a phone screen, Jonathan Haidt has an explanation for that image — and he thinks it should worry you a great deal more than it probably does. The Anxious Generation:

Jonathan Turley has spent decades explaining the law to the rest of us on cable news and in courtrooms; in Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, he turns that same explanatory instinct on the country’s founding itself, arguing that the revolution Americans think they know

Some books arrive with fanfare and thick spines; this one arrives at just eighty pages and asks you to slow down for a single sentence you have read a hundred times without ever really reading it. Walter Isaacson’s The Greatest Sentence Ever Written takes the second sentence of the Declaration

Somewhere beneath the surface of a world remade by a sadistic alien game show, a man and his cat have become famous enough to have a price on their heads. That is, remarkably, only the third-strangest sentence a reader could write about Matt Dinniman’s “The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook,” the third

Matt Haig built a career-defining hit out of a library full of unlived lives. In “The Midnight Train,” his follow-up to the phenomenon that was “The Midnight Library,” he swaps the endless branching possibilities of that book for something narrower and, in some ways, harder to sit with: a single