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In “Crossing the Red Line,” Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.

Fights, feuds and insults are all in a day’s work for Ari Emanuel, who offers an unvarnished look at his rapacious career in a new memoir.

“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to channel supernatural forces.

In “Exit Party,” by Emily St. John Mandel, two versions of America’s future crash into each other.

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In “When America Roared,” Jonathan Kaufman draws together a bushel of figures who thrived in one fateful decade.

In “Live Laugh Love,” Kristin Kobes Du Mez examines how Christian women absorbed the idea that material abundance was evidence of divine favor.

In a new book, the fashion historian Kate Strasdin looks at the makers who designed the monarch’s sartorial persona.

In Sarah Anderson’s satirical novel, “Fallow,” a debt-laden woman becomes a professional surrogate for a corporate behemoth.

“Our Noble Selves” takes place amid the 1951 Festival of Britain, when a traumatized ex-war reporter and P.O.W. goes from government cog to murder suspect.