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Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s parents were leaders of the Weather Underground. His new book traces how their revolutionary ideals collided with their family life.

The fast success of this play, about the children’s author Roald Dahl, is a rarity on Broadway, where most shows lose money.

In “An Inconvenient Widow,” Lois Romano defends the most reviled first lady from her detractors past and present.

For her latest book, the popular British scholar Mary Beard gets personal about how she fell for ancient Greece and Rome.

In “The Theater,” the journalist James Verini recounts the bombing of a performing arts space turned refugee shelter in the middle of war-torn Mariupol.

The best-selling author recommends books by Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory and more where the line between nemeses and soul mates becomes deliciously flimsy.

In his first book, Theo Baker chronicles an outrageously eventful year navigating an enigmatic center of power.

In “The Wonderful World That Almost Was,” Andrew Durbin reconstructs the coterie that surrounded the artist-lovers Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.

Steven Rowley’s new novel, “Take Me With You,” asks who we are without our partners.

The popular astrophysicist can be witty and informative when making science accessible. You wouldn’t know it from his new book, “Take Me to Your Leader.”