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In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.

“American Scoundrel” traces the career of Roy Cohn, whose smash-mouth politics continue to shape our own.

The journalist Jon Ronson finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man’s baronial fantasia and others like him who are living unmoored from reality.

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

In “Up on Cove Mountain” Earl Swift confronts a place — and a tragedy — that haunts him.

Robert Harris’s new novel, “Agrippa,” follows a statesman who witnesses the transformation of a republic into an empire.

In “Under Story,” a grieving woman makes a discovery that could help her recover what she thought she had lost forever.

“The eloquence and depth of his prose remain for me the gold standard,” John Adams writes of Michael Steinberg, who excelled at his craft in the 1960s and ’70s.

In September, the Book Review Book Club will read Paul Yoon’s latest, about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.

A former Catholic priest, he later became an acclaimed author, writing more than two dozen works about life in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.