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In her new history, “Cocked and Boozy,” Brooke Barbier illuminates the pervasive role that alcohol played throughout the colonial era.

Her memoir follows the path from an abusive childhood to Hollywood stardom. But it’s being released amid a backlash over transgender rights that’s caught up to her, too.

Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to language, human creativity can’t be beat.

In a Pulitzer-winning book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” he wrote that the colonists rose up against an entire worldview, not just against taxation.

In Ben Fountain’s new novel, Washington insiders scheme to replace the president with a religious professional wrestler.

Set in 1962 Los Angeles, “Red Sheet” follows the murder and mayhem behind a “mini Red Scare.”

His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

In “The Man Who Stole the Gods,” Matthew Campbell recounts how cultural artifacts were pillaged in Cambodia.

In this satisfyingly old-school novel, an artist tries to find his place, and hold onto his spark, in a world that values fads and flash.

He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.