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In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich.

Political histories, a courtroom drama and the memoir of a daughter of the South Side illuminate the legacy of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Generational connections — and divides — abound in four new volumes that take vastly different approaches to storytelling.

Show the zoologist Bill Schutt what your mouth looks like, and he’ll tell you who you are.

Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the much (much) older “shadow daddies” of romantasy novels.

Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the much (much) older “shadow daddies” of romantasy novels.

In Jo Hamya’s second novel, “The Hypocrite,” a 20-something playwright puts her absent, aging writer dad on blast.

Nathan Newman’s uproarious “How to Leave the House” follows a haughty young Englishman looking for a missing package and the endearing neighbors he meets on the hunt.

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

In “On the Edge,” the election forecaster argues that the gambler’s mind-set has come to define modern life.