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In “Chasing Hope,” the veteran Times journalist remembers the highs and lows of his storied career.

In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument or ideas.

In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.

A renowned member of the New York School of poets, he also found accidental notoriety when he was photographed during the 1968 uprising at Columbia University.

In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he’s singing his story.

The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.

A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.

In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.

As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”

An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.