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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.”

Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s novel follows a commitment-averse liar who is plagued by visions of violence.

In Veronica Roth’s “Seek the Traitor’s Son,” a soldier in a pandemic-ravaged world is forced to become the hope of her people.