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Two career-spanning essay collections, from Nik Cohn and Jerry Stahl, revel in life’s margins and recapture auras past.

In “Exit Party,” by Emily St. John Mandel, two versions of America’s future crash into each other.

In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.

In “Redwood,” Ben Macintyre tells the story of a Russian spy in Iran who betrayed his country in exchange for an unusual request.

In “A Shadow Over the World,” William I. Hitchcock shows how the early struggle against totalitarianism was rife with contradictions.

In a new book, the fashion historian Kate Strasdin looks at the makers who designed the monarch’s sartorial persona.

A new book takes kids whose phones can beat grandmasters back to a 1997 nail-biter.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The new and selected poems in Jill Bialosky’s “Mock Heart” show her steadily circling desire and domesticity.

In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline’s new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.