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A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.

She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary.

In “Rat City,” Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden explore the life, times and influence of the scientific Pied Piper, John Bumpass Calhoun.

On a family tour of Greece, the writer followed the small footsteps of some of ancient mythology’s biggest fans.

In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality.

Alisa Alering’s debut novel, “Smothermoss,” is an Appalachian mystery tangled with wild magic, queer coming-of-age and sisterly bonds.

The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.

Her writing, from the late 1920s to the late ’40s, about sex, marriage, divorce, child rearing and work-life balance still resonates.

In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately “protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.”

In Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge.