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“The Fire Agent,” by David Baerwald, is a historical novel that spans two continents and world wars.

Following his “Less” books with “Villa Coco,” Andrew Sean Greer drops an aimless postgraduate into a glamorous, romantic and secret-laden setting.

The story at the heart of “Checkmate” is a good one, but Ben Mezrich has hustled it into print too quickly.

Lerner’s new novel is a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.

In “Whistler,” a surprise encounter at the Met changes the course of two lives.

As presented in Andrea Wulf’s new biography, “The Traveler,” George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath.

In “The Wreck of the Mentor,” the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling.

Josh Weil’s new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.

Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, “Land” is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland’s long struggle against British rule.

In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.