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In “The Rush,” Nathaniel Philbrick paints a portrait of the treasure seekers, prospectors and conniving politicians who shaped the destiny of the United States.

What seems like a story of a man hoping to reunite with a childhood flame is really a high-wire act about police brutality, racist conspiracies and much, much more.

Set just after World War I, “The Eye of Goliath” details a man’s descent into madness and a doctor’s unorthodox treatment methods.

The most comprehensive biography of the hip-hop mogul to date is both an in-depth character study and a 30-year chronicle of crime and hubris.

In Mikita Brottman’s true-crime odyssey, “A Double Life,” things get lurid.

The best-selling author Laurie Gilmore recommends books that take all the best bits of a literary love story and take them from fun to feral.

Two slim novels by Nao-Cola Yamazaki show that romance can often be pretty unromantic.

Sarah Hepola’s new memoir picks up where “Blackout” left off: with the story of three passionate, doomed affairs in her 30s and 40s.

In “This Cursed Beautiful Land,” the journalist Evan Gershkovich explores what he learned while imprisoned in the country his parents fled.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.