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The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.

Sarai Walker’s “Furious Violet” is a psychological thriller about the kind of woman the genre — and the world — typically overlooks.

In “The Renoir Girls,” the English historian Catherine Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the Cahen d’Anvers family.

A pair of new books look back at the fear, anxiety and optimism that shaped the founding of the United States.

In “The Frenchmen,” Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.

In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals.

Matthew Quick’s memoir takes the form of a letter to his father as dementia slowly dismantles the man who once terrified him.

The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.

Blending autobiography with meditations on craft, “Unsayable” feels destined for the graduation gift bag.

In “The Mortons,” a young hit woman — a prodigy at killing — is tested by inherited secrets and her own morality.